Publication Date
n.d.
Subject
Poets, Arab--Biography | Arabic poetry | Poets, Persian--Biography; Title: Sharḥ ʿalā ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī fī al-kalām; Pp. 4-44. A work on kalām, missing the beginning. Begins with section two, which is a commentary on ʿAllāmah Ḥillī's positions on kalām. It is followed by section three, where the author discusses other matters regarding kalām, including aspects of Shīʿī doctrines. The text is the product of a muqabalah with a manuscript of the commentator dated A.H. 723. Author is unknown.Title: Risālah fī al-balāghah; Pp. 46-63. Fragment, missing beginning and ending. A manual on literary eloquence, including discussions on speech and grammar and a commentary on the famous grammarian al-Sībawayh. Author is unknown.Title: Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fī awhām al-khawāṣṣ; Pp. 65-75. This is a treeatise on the incorrect usage of Arabic expressions, using examples from stories about the early Shīʿī imams and leaders, including al-Ḥasan, al-Ṣādiq and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyah. Missing end folios.Title: Siyāq-i tārīkh-i Nīshāpūr; Pp. 77-80. This is only a short fragment of the text. After one page of text, poems from al-ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī and al-Maydānī.Title: Al-Abānah fī sharḥ Kitāb al-sāmī fī al-asāmī; P. 81 only. From a commentary on the book of Arabic linguistics al-Sāmī fī-al-asāmī. Author is unknown.Title: Muntakhab min al-aḥādīth fī umūr mukhtalifah; Pp. 83-85. Three pages on various ḥadīth and stories of the Shīʿī imams. Incomplete, missing ending. Author is unknown.Title: Safaḥāt min aqsām al-ḥikmah; Fragment, missing beginning and ending. Pp. 86-87. The first part deals with practical philosophy, a commentary on Aristotle's Book of Ethics, and al-Fārābī's the Virtuous City. Followed by a discussion of natural philosophy. Author is unknown.Title: Ṣafaḥāt min al-adab al-ʿarabī; Pp. 88-90. Fragment, missing beginning. Three pages on Arabic literature. The second page is damaged. Author is unknown.Title: Risālah dar irth-i zan; Pp. 91-98. Treatise in Persian on the legal inheritance rights of women.Title: Jawāhir al-tafsīr; P. 99. One page, missing beginning. Commentary on the Qurʾān. Author is unknown.Title: al-Farāʾiḍ; Missing ending. On jurisprudence, dealing with inheritance. Author is unknown.Title: Naqd al-uṣūl wa-talkḥīs al-fuṣūl; On logic. The second part is a commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytic and Posterior Analytic. Author is unknown.Title: al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt; Begins with a discussion of physics and includes Arabic commentary in the margins. Missing ending.Title: Anwār al-ḥikmah; Islamic religious tracts on the knowledge of God, Angels, prophets, and revealed books. Author is unknown.
Type
Document
Language
ara,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
21 x 13 cm.
Library
UCLA Digital Library
Library Asset ID
34
Record ID
zz000sq0zr
Library Location
Minasian (Caro) Collection of Persian and Arabic Manuscripts - University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Notes
public domain
