Philosophy [IO Islamic 2283] المحاکمات [part]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2283 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 482 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

482.

2283. Size 9 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 168. Fifteen lines in a page.

A Commentary (by قوله ) on Ṭûsî’s Commentary to the first part, or Logic, of Ibn Sînâ’s الاشارات و التنبیهات.

The author is not named. His preface begins:توجهنا الی جناب قدسک

; and he says subsequently:

هذا اخوانی کتابی فی شرح الشرح بریئا من النقض سلیما(fol. 2) من الجرح علی وفق ملتمسکم و موجب مقترحکم وازنت فیه بین الشرحین الخ.

The commentary commences:

قال الشارح العلامة احسن الله اکرامه الحمدلله الذی وفقنا لافتتاح المقال بتحمیده لاحظ فی هذه الخطبة کلام الشیخ فی خطبته حیث حمد الله علی التوفیق اوّلا الخ

The following date is given at the end:

هذا آخر ما اردنا ایراده فی قسم المنطق من هذا الکتاب والله الموفق للصواب فرغ المصنف لیلة الاضحی لسنة ست و خمسین و سبعمائة

From this it would appear that this is the first part of the commentary of ḲUṬB AL-DÎN Muḥammad b. Muḥammad RÂZÎ or TAḤTÂNÎ (d. A.H. 766; see Cat. Bodl. ii. 354), which, on account of its purpose, to decide the controversies of Ṭûsî and Râzî, is often called المحاکمات. It is mentioned by Ḥ. Kh. ii. 302, though his statements do not agree with the preface of this MS. The second part seems to be contained in Cat. Lugd. iii. 322. no. MCCCCLIV.

Plainly, but incorrectly written; of the twelfth century.

Seal of Nuṣrat Jang.

[College of Fort William. 1825.]