Philosophy [IO Bijapur 169] Commentary on الهداية

<strong>Philosophy.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 169 </strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong><strong><em>A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</em>, (volume 1), no. 493 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>. 493. B 169. Size 8^3/4in. by 4^3/4in.; foll.77. At first seventeen, afterwards as many as twenty-three lines in a page. Another Commentary on the Physics and Metaphysics of <em>Abharî’s </em>الهداية, by Muḥammad b. Mubârak Shâh Bukhârî, commonly called MÎRAK; who probably lived in the eighth century. This is a commentary by قال ... اقول ; making, with the exception of the first passage (fol.2), only allusions to the text. The author says in his preface, after a simple <em>Ḥamdalah</em>:³ و بعد فقد سالني بعض احبّائي⁴ان اكتب للقسمين الطبيعي و الالهي من كتاب الهداية للمولي العلامة .... شرحاً الخ Legibly written; with various marginal notes, among which are glosses of Saiyid Sharîf. Fol.1 has been supplied carelessly by a different hand. ³The Beginning given by H. Kh. vi. 474, in from the author’s commentary on the حكمة العين. ⁴احىاىى (!). Another MS. reads اخوانى. [<strong>ed note</strong>: قال ... اقول appears also as a style in the Windham College copy of the commentary on <em>Mughnī al-labīb</em> by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf Ibn Hishām (1309-1360) in which the author reports that he composed the work in Aḥmadābād on the orders of Aḥmad Shāh ibn Muḥammad Shāh ibn Muẓaffar Shāh, apparently Aḥmad Shāh II, 1451-58.]