Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 226] عُمْدَة عَقائِد

• Scholastic Theology.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 226 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 434 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

434.

B 226. Size 11^1/4 in. by 6^3/4 in.; foll. 53. Seven lines in a page.

A treatise on the Muḥammadan Creed. By Ḥâfiẓ al-dîn Abu’l-barakât ‘Abdallah b. Aḥmad NASAFÎ (d. A.H. 710). It has been edited by Cureton (for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, London, 1843), under the title:

عمدة عقیدة اهل السنة و الجماعة,³ or Pillar of the Creed of the Sunnites. It is named عمدة العقائد by Ḥ. Kh. iv. 261, and it is also called العقیدة الحافظیة.

Written in a large hand, with many marginal and interlinear notes. Part of these are specified as extracts from commentaries on the present work, namely that by the author, entitled الاعتماد فی الاعتقاد, and those of Rafî’ al-dîn and Zakarîyâ. Of the tenth century. One leaf is missing after fol. 49.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1027. Presented by Ḳâḍi Naṣîr al-dîn. Cat. 226, xxxi.

³ These words are from the author’s preface.