Scholastic Theology [IO Islamic 2178]

Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2178 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 465 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

465.

2178. Size 91/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 70. Ten lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-38. ABU’L-BARAKÂT NASAFÎ’S (d. A.H. 710) Articles of the Muḥammadan Creed, called here العقیدة الحافظیة (see no. 434).

Beginning: الحمدلله ....و بعد فیقول ابوالبرکات الخ.

Hastily written in Shikastah. Every second leaf is left blank; glosses have been frequently written on these, and others have been added to the text. Date, beginning of Rajab, 1223.

II.Fol.39-70. A treatise on the Muḥammadan Faith. The author is not named.

Begins: الحمدلله ...و بعد فان اشرف العلوم علم الکلام و هو الباحث عن الموجب و الممکن علی قانون الاسلام الخ.

Arranged and partly also written like the preceding. The latter portion is written more carefully in Nasta’liḳ. With many notes. Some lacunas occur towards the end. Concludes:

و کان الفراغ من تصویده (!) لاربع عشرة لیلة خلون (!).

[College of Fort William, 1825.]