Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 246] Anthology
<ul> <li><strong>Scholastic Theology.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic B246 </strong><strong>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. 468 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/120/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>468</strong></a>.</p> <p>B 246. Size 8 in. by about 6 in.; foll. 56. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p><strong>1. Foll. 1-27</strong>. MÎR ṢADR AL-DÎN Muḥammad Ḥusainî Shîrâzî’s (d. A.H. 903) treatise on the Divine Nature, رسالة فی اثبات البارئ تعالی و صفاته الحسنی. See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 362.</p> <p>The name of the author is given in the preface as follows: (r. الشیرازی) الشهیر بصدر الحسینی الشیران..</p> <p>The following is a list of the twelve sections (فصل) of the work: I. (fol. 2) فی اثباته تعالی; II. (fol. 4) فی توحیده و تنزیهه; III. فی ان واجب الوجود لا یقبل القسمة الی الاجزاء اصلا; IV. (fol. 9) فی ان واجب الوجود هل یجوز ان یکون له صفة زائدةعلیه ام لا; V. (fol. 10<em>v</em>.) فی علمه تع; VI. (fol. 16<em>v</em>.) فی قدرته تع; VII. (fol. 18<em>v</em>.) فی ارادته تع; VIII. (fol. 20<em>v</em>.) فی حیوته تع; IX. (fol. 21<em>v.) </em>فی سمعه و بصره; X. (fol. 22) فی کلامه تع; XI. (fol. 26) فی القضاء و القدر; XII. (fol. 27) فی سائر صفاته تع. It concludes (fol. 27<em>v</em>.) with خامة فی تقسیم صفاته تع.</p> <p><strong>2. Foll. 28-56</strong>. Another treatise on the same subject, which appears to be الرسالة الجدیدة by <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92018469.html">JALÂL AL-DÎN DAWWÂNÎ</a> (d. A.H. 907 or 908). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 361, whose statement is however, inaccurate.</p> <p>This MS. begins: الاستغناء فی التسمیة و له الحمد علی کرمه العمیم و منّه القدیم.</p> <p>No title or name occurs in the preface. The MS. is imperfect at the end. The following is a list of the <em>fourteen</em> sections (فصل) which occur here: I. (fol. 28) فی اثبات واجب الوجود لذاته. This section begins with the words quoted by Ḥ. Kh. (I. 6) as referring to the work in general. They run here somewhat differently, thus:</p> <p>قد افردت فی عنفوان شبابی رسالة فی هذا المطلب و اوردت فیها وجوه البراهین المنقولة عن ائمة الحکمة و الکلام مع ما سنح لی من النقض و الابرام و الهدم و الاحکام و اقتصر ههنا علی ما هو اوضح و اظهر و اتقن و اخصر فاقول الخ.</p> <p>II. (fol. 31<em>v</em>.) فی ان وجوده لا یزید علیه الخ; III. (fol. 32) في توحیده تعالی; IV. (fol. 38<em>v</em>.) فی ان واجب الوجود لا یقبل القسمة الی اجزاء; V. (fol. 40<em>v</em>.) فی ان صفاته تع عین ذاته; VI. (fol. 42<em>v</em>.) فی علمه تع; VII. (fol. 47<em>v</em>.) فی قدرته تع; VIII. (fol. 49) فی ارادته تع; IX. (fol. 50<em>v</em>) فی حیوته تع; X. (fol. 51<em>v</em>.) فی سمعه و بصره; XI. (fol. 52) فی کلامه تع; XII. (fol. 54) فی القضاء و القدر; XIII. (fol. 55) فی حکمته تع; XIV. (<em>ib</em>.) فی وجوده تع.</p> <p>An indifferent copy of the middle of the twelfth century.</p> <p>Cat. 266, xxxix.</p> <p>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijapur_Collection">Bijapur Collection</a>]</p>
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