Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 203, 234]
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<li><strong>Scholastic Theology.</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 203, 234 </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. 426 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li>
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<p><strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/110/mode/2up?view=theater">426</a></strong>.</p>
<p>B 203, 234. Size 9<sup>1/2</sup> in. by 6<sup>3/4</sup> in.; foll. 178. At first from eleven to fifteen, afterwards about thirty lines in a page.</p>
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<p>Foll. 4-90<em>r. </em>Nâṣir al-dîn ‘Abdallah b. ‘Omar BAIḌÂWÎ’S (d. A.H. 685) Compendium of Scholastic Theology, entitled طوالع الانوار من مطالع الانظار. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 168, and Flügel, Hdss. Wien, ii. 607.</p>
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<p>Well written in a bold hand. With numerous glosses, which are chiefly derived from a commentary, for which the abbreviation صد is used; this is perhaps the commentary by ‘Abd al-ṣamad Farâbî, mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. iv. 169.</p>
<p>Fourteen leaves are missing after fol. 34.</p>
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<p>Foll. 90<em>v</em>.-94<em>r.</em> A Commentary by TAFTÂZÂNÎ (d. A.H. 792), on the Exordium (الخطبة) of <em>Marghînânî’s</em> الهدایة (see no. 211).</p>
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<p>Written in a smaller character than the preceding. Dated 10<sup>th</sup> Muḥarram (یوم عاشورا), 798.</p>
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<p>Fol. 94<em>v</em>. and 95<em>r.</em> An explanation of the Exordium (الخطبة) of <em>Bai</em><em>ḍâwî’s</em> طوالع الانوار, taken from the commentary of IṢFAHÂNÎ (see the following no.).</p>
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<p>Foll. 95<em>v</em>.-178. A Commentary on the طوالع االانوار. The author is, according to Ḥ. Kh. iv. 169, Burhân al-dîn ‘Ubaidallah b. Muḥammad ‘Ubaidalî Sharîf Farghânî, commonly called ‘UBRÎ (d. A.H. 743). Cf. Cat. Bodl. i., no. exl., and ii. 570.</p>
<p>The text and the commentary are distinguished by the words قال and اقول. The author says in his preface: و بعد فهذه حواشٍ کتبناها علی کتاب الطوالع المنسوب الی القاضی ...بالتماس جمع من الاصحاب مقتصرا علی حَدِّ الکتاب تیسیرًا للامر علی الطلّاب الخ.</p>
<p>The commentary begins: قال رحه و بعد فمقصود الکتاب مرتب علی مقدّمة و ثلاثة کتب اقول مقصود الکتاب مرتب علی مقدمة اعنی ما یتوقف علیه المباحث الآتیة الکلامیة.</p>
<p>Carefully written in a small character, with copious marginal notes. Several leaves are missing after foll. 130 and 132.</p>
<p>The whole volume was written by Muḥammad b. Shihâb الوابکنوی (!)<sup>1</sup> Sirâj, who was a pupil of Taftâzânî.</p>
<p>Foll. 1-3 are filled with <em>Persian </em>poetry and various extracts from Arabic works, partly in the original hand. Fol. 4<em>r</em>. bear an ornament intended to contain the title.</p>
<p>This MS. was brought from Muḥammadâbâd-Bîdar, and came into the Bîj. Libr. A.H. 1028. Seal of Maḥmûd Khwâjah Jahân.</p>
<p>Cf., on this and the following nos., Cat. 224, ii.; 226, xvi. 2, 3, 4, xvii., xxvii.</p>
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<p><sup>1</sup> The regular form of this surname is الوابکنی, from وابْکَنة, or وابَکْنة, a place near Bukhâra. See Liber as-Sojutii de nom. rel., ed. Veth, p. ۲۷۰, and Yâḳût, iv. ۸۷۲.</p>
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