Philosophy and Theology [IO Bijapur 209]

Philosophy and Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 209 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 596 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

596.

B 209. Size 81/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 103. Twenty-one lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-81. Annotation to Jurjânî’s Glosses on Ḳuṭb al-dîn’s Commentary on The مطالع الانوار (see no. 525). It appears from the more modern inscription, حاشية عبدالحكيم , and from the dedication of the work to Shâhjahân, that the author is ‘Abd al-ḥakîm b. Shams al-dîn SIYÂLKÛTÎ (d. soon after A.H. 1060).

The preface, which is written on the title-page,

Begins:يا من لا يحوم حول سرادقات ذاته الانظار.

The first annotation is (fol. 1v.):قال شريف زمانه ... الفياض الوهاب بيانا لما هو المراد من لفظ الفياض فى عبارة الشارح الخ. The copy was left unfinished.

II.Foll.82-103. A fragment of Glosses on Dawwânî’s Commentary on العقائد العضدية (see no.455). These glosses were also written by SIYÂLKÛTÎ.

Extracts from them are to be found on the margin of no. 466.

Begins:برهان قوله فكونه غير ممكن.

Defects after foll. 90, 91, and 101.Foll. 102 and 103 give the conclusion of the work.

Written in Nasta’liḳ.