Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Islamic 21]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 21 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 102 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>102.</p> <p>21. Size 13 in. by 8^1/4 in.; foll. 787. Thirty-five lines in a page.</p> <p>ارشاد العقل السلیم الی مزایا الکتاب الکریم</p> <p>A large Commentary (ممزوج) on the Koran, by ABU&rsquo;L-SU&rsquo;&Ucirc;D Muḥammad b. Muḥammad &lsquo;Im&acirc;d&icirc; (d. A. H. 982), being the most valued after those of Zamakhshar&icirc; and Baiḍ&acirc;w&icirc;, upon which it chiefly depends. It is dedicated to the Turkish Sultan Sulaim&acirc;n I. See Ḥ. Kh. i. 249; Fleischer, Cat. Dresd. 368; Cat. Lugd. iv. 41. Printed at B&ucirc;l&acirc;ḳ, A. H. 1285.</p> <p>Begins: سبحان من ارسل رسوله بالهدی و دین الحقّ.</p> <p>In two volumes bound together; well written in a small hand; richly ornamented and gilt. The first volume ends with S&ucirc;. 12, and has the following colophon: کتبه الفقیر اقل عباد الله الشیخ جمال الدین حافظ ابن الشیخ عبد الملک الحنفی مذهبا السنی عقیدة القادری طریقا الهندی مولدا البغدادی موطنا عفی عنهما. The second volume concludes with the author&rsquo;s epilogue.</p> <p>Foll. 33-36 are misplaced. Worm-eaten.</p> <p>[Johnson.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>