Umdat as-Salik wa Uddat an-Nasik

A work of Islamic jurisprudence by hanafi scholar Shahab al-Din (1302-67 AD), whose influence on the present treatise was heavily drawn from primary texts by Imam Nawawi and Imam Abu Ishaq As-Shirazi.

The informal copying and provincial binding of this manuscript are typical of manuscript production in the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The Western imported paper is of a mixed stock and the reeds used to inscribe the text here are thick and unrefined. The scribe endorsed an informal cursive hand and the narrow margins and small-scale script indicate that the scribe was likely copying the text for personal use; adding annotations and inscriptions in the same hand throughout the volume throughout their years of ownership.