Philosophy [IO Bijapur 169] Commentary on الهداية

<ul> <li><strong>Philosophy.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 169&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. 493&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>493.</p> <p>B 169. Size 8^3/4in. by 4^3/4in.; foll.77. At first seventeen, afterwards as many as twenty-three lines in a page.</p> <p>Another Commentary on the Physics and Metaphysics of <em><a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_51545226">Abhar&icirc;</a>&rsquo;s </em><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/sharh-al-hidayah-al-athiriyah/oclc/1057446910">الهداية</a>, by <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_230145542519196640856">Muḥammad b. Mub&acirc;rak Sh&acirc;h Bukh&acirc;r&icirc;</a>, commonly called M&Icirc;RAK; who probably lived in the eighth century.</p> <p>This is a commentary by قال ... اقول ; making, with the exception of the first passage (fol.2), only allusions to the text. The author says in his preface, after a simple <em>Ḥamdalah</em>:³</p> <p>و بعد فقد سالني بعض احبّائي⁴ان اكتب للقسمين الطبيعي و الالهي من كتاب الهداية للمولي العلامة .... شرحاً الخ</p> <p>Legibly written; with various marginal notes, among which are glosses of Saiyid Shar&icirc;f. Fol.1 has been supplied carelessly by a different hand.</p> <p>³The Beginning given by H. Kh. vi. 474, in from the author&rsquo;s commentary on the حكمة العين.</p> <p>⁴احىاىى (!). Another MS. reads اخوانى.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: قال ... اقول appears also as a style in the Windham College copy of the commentary on <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_13116"><em>Mughnī al-labīb</em></a> by <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_19911704">ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf Ibn Hishām</a> (1309-1360) in which the author reports that he composed the work in Aḥmadābād on the orders of Aḥmad Shāh ibn Muḥammad Shāh ibn Muẓaffar Shāh, apparently <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_II">Aḥmad Shāh II</a>, 1451-58.]&nbsp;</li> </ul>