Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 198]

Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 198 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 400 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

400.

B 198. Size 93/4 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 68. Nineteen lines in a page.

Glosses on Taftâzânî’s Commentary, ascribed on the title-page to Molla ‘ALÂ AL-DÎN. Two authors of this surname wrote such glosses, according to Ḥ. Kh. iv. 220 and 221, viz. ‘Alî Muṣannifak (d. A.H. 875), and Alî ‘Arabî (d. A.H. 901).

The Basmalah is followed by the words و قد کان و یکون به الاستعانة فی التتمیم, after which the first gloss begins thus: قوله قال اهل الحق قوله (اقول.r) الظاهر ان مقول القول حقائق الاشیاء ثابتة. The author frequently refers to the aforesaid glosses of Aḥmad Jandî, المحشّی الفاضل.

This copy breaks off abruptly, though the last words are drawn up in the form of a conclusion. It extends over about one-third of the original work.

Written in Nasta’liḳ, without diacritical points, and completed on 27 Muḥarram, 1023, by Ḳâsim b. Jalâl Ḥusainî Bukhârî.