Philosophy [IO Islamic 1477] شرح هياكل النور
<ul> <li><strong>Philosophy.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1477 </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. 485 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/134/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>485</strong></a>.</p> <p>1477. Size 7 in. by 3<sup>1/2</sup> in.; foll. 115. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>A Commentary (ممزوج) on Shihâb al-dîn (<a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79121685/">Yaḥya b. Ḥabash) </a><em><a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79121685/">Suhrawardî</a>’s</em> (d. A.H. 587) هیاکل النور, by Jalâl al-dîn (Muḥammad b. As’ad) <a href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92018469.html">DAWWÂNÎ </a>(d. A.H. 907 or 908 [= 1512-13 CE]). See for a full account of this work, <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66290">Flügel</a>, <a href="http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/711428">Hdss.</a> Wien, <a href="https://archive.org/details/diearabischenper03vienuoft/page/328/mode/2up">iii. 328</a> [= no. 1895] (where, however, the name of the commentator is incorrectly given). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 505; Cat. St. Petersb. 59 sq.; Cat. Lugd. iii. 355; <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86026042/">[Charles] Stewart</a>’s Catal. 122 sq.; and <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88639489/">A. von Kremer</a>, <a href="https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/ssg/content/titleinfo/1264685">Geschichte der herrschenden Ideen des Islams</a>, 89 sqq.</p> <p>The name of the Sultan (السلطان بن السلطان بن السلطان) to whom the commentary is dedicated, runs in the text of this MS. as in Flügel, l.c., but on the margin is added the name of ‘Aḍud al-dîn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Sa%27id_Mirza">Abu Sa’îd</a> Gurgan (the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timurid_dynasty">Timuride</a>, d. A.H. 873 [=1469 CE]) as a variant.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>Written in a not very clear Nasta’liḳ hand, with additions by the author on the margin. The end is wanting.</p> <p>The fly-leaf contains a notice regarding the death of a person at Yazd, which took place A.H. 1176 [= 1762-63 CE].</p> <p>[<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10088">Tippu</a>.]</p> <p><sup>1</sup> Cf. Stewart, 122.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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