Scholastic Theology [IO Islamic 1001]

Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1001 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 423 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

423.

1001. Size 91/2 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 304. Twenty-one lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-15. Some notes to the earlier portion of the preceding work of Mîrzâ Jân, terminating abruptly.

Beginning:

(قوله) الثالث تقیید السلب الوارد علی الوجود و هو الصحیح قد اوردت علیه فی الحواشی ان بعد تقیید السلب بزمان الخ.

The words of Mîrzâ Jân referred to here are found at the end of fol. 9v. of the preceding no.

II.Foll. 16-304. Glosses extending over the whole work of Mîrzâ Jân, as contained in no. 421. They are followed by some notes referring directly to the work of Dawwânî, who is styled المحقق, and to that of Ḳûshjî.

According to notes on the two title-pages, the name of the author is AGHA ḤUSAIN خفاری. Additional notes by the same are on the margin.

Closely written in a small, but clear Nasta’liḳ hand, by Hâshim Ḥusainî. The second piece is dated Tuesday, 15th Rabî’ I., 1072. Gold lines round the pages.

The first piece is wrongly inscribed شرح الاشارات.

[Hastings.]