Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Islamic 1063]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1063 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 114 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 114. 1063. Size 71/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 294. Nine lines in a page. A Commentary on the 12th Sûrah (سورة یوسف), combined with the legendary history (القصة) of Joseph. It is ascribed to the celebrated GHAZZÂLÎ (d. A. H. 505). Begins (fol. 2v.): تفسیر سورة یوسف و قصة یوسف علیه السلام، و السورة مکیّة باجماعهم و هی مائة واحدی عشرة آیة و الف و ستمائة کلمة و سبعة آلاف و مائة و ستة و ستون حرفا قال المصنف الغزالی (fol.3)فی سبب نزولها قولان. This is not a real commentary, but rather a kind of homily on the double text aforesaid, illustrating it with moral stories, sentences, poetry, etc. It ends with v. 102. The rest of the Sûrah is given with the Persian Commentary of ḤUSAIN KÂSHIFÎ, introduced by the following words (fol. 288): تمت تفسیر العربی من تصنیف الامام محمد الغزالی رحمه الله تعالی و ما بقی من السورة یفسر من تفسیر حسینی. Ends: تمت قصة یوسف الصدیق علیه السلام بعون الملک العزیز العلام. Written in a large, plain hand. Coloured lines round each page. The first two pages contain a prayer.