Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 243] الحاشیة القدیمة

• Scholastic Theology.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 243 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 417 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

417.

B 243. Size 8 in. by 4^3/4 in.; foll. 147. Twenty-two lines in a page.

A Gloss on Ḳûshjî’s Commentary [ed note:= الشَرْح الجَدیدُ], by JALÂL AL-DÎN Muḥammad b. As’ad Ṣiddîḳî DAWWÂNÎ (d. A.H. 907 or 908 [1512-13 CE]). This is the first of the three glosses which he wrote to that commentary. It is commonly called الحاشیة القدیمة. See Ḥ. Kh. ii. 200 sqq.; and on the author, Catal. St. Petersb. 83, and Sprenger, Catal. Libr. Oudh, 73.

The work begins with commenting on the first additional note of ḲÛSHJÎ’s, as found in the above MSS. (e.g. on fol. 8 of no. 409):

قوله فی الحاشیة قیل لم یرد به معینا الخ اقول مراده بالزیادة فی الجملة الخ

It extends, in this MS., only over the first chapter (مقصد) and the commencement of the second. The last annotation refers to the words: قوله اذ لم ینتهض دلیل علی بطلانه, from the second فصل (=fol. 161 of no. 409).

There is prefixed, but only in the present MS., the author’s preface (foll. 2-4), beginning:

یا من وفقنا لتجرید الکلام، فی تقریر عقائد الاسلام

It contains a dedication to Sultan Abu’l-fatḥ Khalîl Beg Bahâdur Khân, son of Sultan Abu’l-naṣr Ḥasan Beg (or Uzun Ḥasan), the second prince of the Bâyandurîyah Dynasty, or Turkomans of the White Ram [i.e. Aq Ooyunlu], who reigned from A.H. 883 to 884.¹

Written in Nasta’liḳ, mostly without diacritical points; with marginal notes by the author (marked with منه). It was copied by Mughîth al-dîn Muḥammad Ḥusainî, for his own use. Of the tenth century [i.e. circa 1490-1590 CE].

Bîj. Libr.., A.H. 1026 [=1617 CE], from Shâh Nawâz Khân. [ed. note: Shāh Nawāz Khān died in 1647 CE and is buried in Bijapur.]

Cat. 226, xii.

¹ Cf. [Joseph] De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, etc. [Paris, 1751], i. 264, and [William Francis] Thompson’s translation of the Akhlâḳ-i-Jalâlî (Orient. Transl. Fund, 1839), p. 5.

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