Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 184] شَرْح المقاصد

<ul> <li><strong>Scholastic Theology.&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3a%22Maqa%CC%84s%CC%A3id+al-t%CC%A3a%CC%84libi%CC%84n+fi%CC%84+us%CC%A3u%CC%84l+al-di%CC%84n+%28Tafta%CC%84za%CC%84ni%CC%84%2C+Mas%CA%BBu%CC%84d+ibn+%CA%BBUmar%29%22">شرح المقاصد</a></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 184&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</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. 461&nbsp;here with&nbsp;notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>461.</p> <p>B 184. Size 11^1/2 in. by 8 in.; foll. 278. Twenty-nine lines in a page.</p> <p>Sa&rsquo;d al-d&icirc;n <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79106223/">Mas&rsquo;&ucirc;d b. Omar TAFT&Acirc;Z&Acirc;N&Icirc;</a>&rsquo;S (d. 22^nd Muḥarram, 792 [=10 January 1390 CE], at Samarḳand) Commentary on his own Compendium (مختصر) of Metaphysics and Muḥammadan Theology, المقاصد. This commentary was written in Dh&ucirc;-alḳa&rsquo;dah, 784 [=January 1383&nbsp;CE]. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 48.</p> <p>The elaborate preface begins:</p> <p>نحمدک یا من بیده ملکوت کل شی، و به اعتضاده، و من عنده ابتداء کل حی، و الیه معاده</p> <p>The author says subsequently:</p> <p>و بعد فقد کنت فی أِبّان الامر، و عنفوان العمر، ... اسرح النظر فی العلوم طلبا لازهارها و انوارها، و اشرح الکتب من الفنون کشفا لاستارها عن اسرارها الخ</p> <p>The text and the commentary are distinguished by the words قال and اقول, but only a few words are given from the former in each case. Copies of the <em>Maḳ&acirc;ṣid </em>seem to be rare. It consists of the following six chapters (مقصد): I. (fol. 3<em>v</em>.) فی المبادی; II. (fol. 24<em>v</em>.)فی الامور العامة; III. (fol. 74) فی الاعراض; IV. (fol. 117<em>v</em>.) فی الجواهر; V. (fol. 173) فی الالهیات; VI. (fol. 222) فی السمعیات</p> <p>Written in a good small hand. The colophon runs as follows:</p> <p>لقد زبر ما برز کالابریز من العلاب و الهادی مبادی طریق الصواب (!) حرره نور بن احمد المشتهر بشیخ الاسلام بمحروسة هراة هدنت عن المخافات فی العشر الثانی من المائة التاسعة</p> <p>Then follows a list of the works of Taft&acirc;z&acirc;n&icirc;, with their respective dates, derived from the author himself.</p> <p>Two blanks are left on foll. 138 and 152 for diagrams.</p> <p>Foll. 137-172 are in a different hand.</p> <p>On the last page is the note of an owner, named Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Sa&rsquo;d, who read and collated this volume several times, and intended to write a commentary on it. This note is dated A. H. 863 [=1478-79 CE].</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijapur_Collection">B&icirc;j. Libr</a>., A. H. 992 (Nauras)[= 1584 CE]. In the original binding, which is tastefully ornamented.</p> <p>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86026042/">[Charles] Stewart</a>&rsquo;s]&nbsp;<a href="https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/details:bsb10218720">Cat</a>. 224, iv.</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick<a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_641145857886423020766"> link</a> to works by the same author.]</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>