DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5090831
title: Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 221] مَمْزُوج

description: Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 221 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 438 here with further notations and hyperlinks].


438.

B 221, 245. Size 101/2 in. by 7 in.; foll. 343. Twenty-seven lines in a page.

کتاب شرح المواقف للشیخ الامام العلامة اعلم العلماء و افضل الفضلاء المحقق المدقق نقاوة المتاخرین و ناقد ارآءِ المتقدمین استاذ البشر و العقل الحادی عشر السیّد الهمام و الحبر القمقام الصمصام شریف الملة و الدین ابرهیم (!) الجرجانی قدس الله سرّه و نوّر مضجعه و برّد مهجعه.

The Commentary (ممزوج) of SAIYID SHARÎF JURJÂNÎ (‘Alî b. Muḥammad, d. A.H. 816) on the کتاب المواقف فی علم الکلام, or System of Scholastic Theology, by Âḍud al-dîn Îjî (‘Abd al-raḥmân b. Aḥmad, d. A.H. 756).

This work was printed at Constantinople, A.H. 1239. Books V. and VI. have also been edited by Soerensen [libri Mevakif, i.e. Kitāb al-Mawāqif] (Leipzig, 1848), from the Dresden MS., on which see Fleischer, Cat. Dresd [=Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium Bibliothecae Regiae Dresdensis]., no. 379. Cf.  Ḥ. Kh. vi. 236, Cat. Lugd. iii. 376 [=Catalogus codicum orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae], and regarding Îjî, Cat. St. Petersb. 65. The latter dedicated his work to a statesman, whom he names Jamâl al-dîn Abu-Isḥâḳ.

Jurjânî completed his commentary in Shawwâl, 807 [=April 1405 CE], at Samarḳand, and dedicated it, in a special preface, to Sultan Ghiyâth al-dîn Pîr Muḥammad (son of Jahângîr and grandson of Tîmûr, dethroned A.H. 809 [= 1406-07 CE]). This preface begins:

سبحان من تقدست سبحات جماله عن سمت الحدوث و الزوال

The commentary commences:

و هانا افیض فی المقصود متوکلا علی الصمد المعبود و اقول ضمن المصنف الخ

A valuable copy, dated A.H. 869 [= 1464-65 CE]. It was transcribed from a MS. which had been written by a pupil of the author [named as  احمد بن عبدالعزیز بن احمد الشیفکی], and revised throughout. The colophon runs as follows:

تَمَّ الکتاب بحمد الله ...(و) کان الفراغ من تعلیقه بعد صلوة العصر من یوم الاربعاء حادی و عشرین شهر شعبان الکریم احد شهور سنة تسع و ستین و ثمانی مائة من تاریخ الهجرة النبویة و نسخت هذه النسخة من اصل مصحح اجتهد فیه صاحبه ضبظا و تصحیحا من اوله الی آخره و هو من اجلّ تلامذة مؤلف الکتاب و کتب فی آخر نسخته ما هذا صورته مِنْ کُتُب اضعف العباد و احقرهم المحتاج الی ربه الغفور احمد بن عبدالعزیز بن احمد الشیفکی اصلح الله حاله...و مجموع الکتاب خط صاحبه متنًا و حاشیة و یسأل الله تعالی ان یوفق لتصحیح هذه النسخة و ضبطها لتضاهی اصلها فانه اصل معتمد یقلّ فی الدنیا نظیره و الحمدلله ...علقها العبد الفقیر الی الله تعالی موسی بن احمد الصریفی الزوالی عرف بالمکسکس جده العالی خِدْمة لسیّده الفقیه العلامة الاوحد برهان الملة و الدین ابرهیم بن ابی القاسم بن جعمان (؟) ایّده الله و سدّده

Well written, but without diacritical points. Marginal notes. The preface of Jurjânî is prefixed to the book in a different hand.

This MS. consisted originally of 360 foll. A lacuna in the midle of it was restored by two more modern hands, but part of this modern portion (after fol. 172) is now also lost and part is much injured by insects.

The defect comprises the end of Book (موقف) III. The MS. is also damaged at the end.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 992 [=1584 CE].

The second part of this copy, which begins with fol. 173, is wrongly inscribed شرح الشرح شرح عقاید. Cf. Catal. 225, vii. I and 226, xviii.



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