Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 218] Annotations on شرح المواقف [fragments]

• Scholastic Theology.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 218 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 449 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

449.

B 218, 219. Size 10^1/2 in. by 6^1/4 in.; foll. 275. Nineteen lines in a page.

Two fragments of the Annotations on the شرح المواقف by ‘ABD AL-ḤAKÎM b. Shams al-dîn SIYÂLKÛTÎ, (d. about A.H. 1060). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 241. The author wrote these annotations while reading the book with his son ‘Abdallah Labîb.²

The first fragment contains the commencement of the work, with the preface, which begins as follows:

اللهم لک الحمد حمدا یوافی نعمک....و بعد فهذه فوائد بل فرائد علقتها علی شرح المواقف لسیّد المدققین و افضل المحققین عند قراءة قرة العین لهذا الغریب عبدالله الملقب باللبیب تذکرة للاحباب و تحفة للاصحاب و عدّة لیوم الحساب و انا الفقیر المتمسک بالحبل المتین عبد الحکیم بن شیخ شمس الدین الخ

It breaks off on fol. 102v., soon after the commencement of Book (موقف) II.

The second fragment begins with the words (fol. 103v.) الذهنی و اثبات احکامه, from the third مقصد of the first مرصد of Book II., and extends to the end of the same book.

Well written in Nasta’liḳ. Injured by insects.

Cat. 225, vii. 3.

¹ The statement of Ḥ. Kh. vi. 239 is incorrect.

² See above, nos. 113 and 327.

[Bijapur Collection]