Philosophy [IO Bijapur 166]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 166 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 560 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

560.

B 166. Size 9 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 15. Twenty three lines in a page.

A treatise on Theoretic Existence, by ABU’L-ḤASAN B. AḤMAD.

Begins:عز من على اعلام كبريائه .... و بعد فيقول احوج العبيد .. ابوالحسن بن احمد ختم الله له بالحسنى لمّا تاملت فى مباحث الوجود العلمى و الظهور الذهنى الخ.

It consists of an introductory لمعة and two اشراق.

In the first of the latter (fol. 3v.) the author mentions nine difficult questions, which bad been unsatisfactorily discussed by preceding philosophers; and in the second (fol. 6) he undertakes to ascertain the truth regarding them.

Well written in two Nasta’lîḳ hands. Dated 1st Muḥarram, 1013 (?).1 Injured by insects.

This MS. was made a وقف , for the use of students, by its owner, Mu’îzz al-dîn Muḥammad Tustarî, commonly called ملا حلقى, the famous Malik ‘Anbar being witness thereto.

This appears from a note on the title-page, which seems to be written by Malik ’Anbar himself.

Erroneously inscribed حاشيه ملا مرزاجان بر شرح مطالع ; cf. Catal. 230, xiv.

1 The figures are not quite clear.