Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 206] مطالع الانظار فی شرح طوالع الانوار

Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 206 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 427 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

427.

B 206. Size 91/4 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 156. Twenty-five lines in a page.

A Commentary on Baiḍâwî’s طوالع الانوار, by Shams al-dîn Abu’l-thanâ Maḥmûd b. ‘Abd al-raḥmân IṢFAHÂNÎ Shâfi’î (d. A.H. 749 [=1348 or 1349 CE]). It is entitled مطالع الانظار فی شرح طوالع الانوار. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 168, and Cat. Lugd. iv. 248 [=Catalogus codicum orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae].

This copy contains the author’s preface, in which he dedicates his work to Sultan Nâṣir of Egypt.

The commentary begins:

قال الحمد لمن وجب وجوده و بقاؤه اقول ضمّن هذه الخطبة معظم مطالب اصول الدین الخ

Written in a good small hand, with frequent omission of the diacritical points. It was transcribed by ‘Aṭâ Allah b. Muḥammad Ḥusainî, at Samarḳand, at the beginning of Rajab, 829 [=May 1426 CE]. There is a considerable defect after fol. 26.

Bîj. Libr., A.H, 1028 [=1619 CE], from Molla Pâyandah Muḥammad.

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