‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq Eyes of facts and clarification of methods ‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Iraqi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
( عيون الحقائق وايضاح الطرائق عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد)

Title	‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq Eyes of facts and clarification of methods ‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Iraqi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Title Original	عيون الحقائق وايضاح الطرائق عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد
Publication Date:	17th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	1
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v
Record ID	vdc_100023587816.0x000002
Library Location	British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date	17th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes	An exhaustive treatise on the magical arts based upon writings attributed to Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Galen as well as more recent authorities. The author's name is given in full as Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-‘Irāqī Khusrawshāh (أبو القاسم أحمد ابن محمد المعروف بالعراقي بخسروشاه [!], the last name should probably be read al-Khusrawshāhī [الخسروشاهي]; f. 52, lines 20-21). The treatise was written in the latter half of the 13th century since its preface mentions the reigning Mamluk Sultan, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn (i.e. Baybars I al-Bunduqdārī, r. 658/1260-676/1277; f. 50v, line 6), his son Barakah (f. 51r, line 18), and his vizier Bahā’ al-Dīn (f. 51r, line 5; see Holmyard's introduction to Abu al-Qāsim al-ʿIrāqī's, Kitāb al-ʿilm al-muktasab, 1923, p. 3). It begins with a dedicatory preface (ff. 50v-51r, line 20), and an introduction that includes a list of the treatises thirty chapters (أبواب; ff. 51r, line 20-52v, line 3). Begins (f. 50v, lines 2-3):الحمد لله الذي أطلع لنا من مشارق الأرض شموسًا لا يتم خط سياح الملكوالشريعة المحمدية الأبهم وهديهم من الضلالة لحفظ رعيته من المؤمنين Ends (f. 87v, lines 13-17):اعلم يا أخي أن هذه الحروف يتعلق بالكواكب السبعةالسيارة ومعرفة خواصها وما يناسب كل حرفمنها إلى أي معدن فافهم ومعك الله لطاعتهوجنبك عن معصيته والله حسبيونعم الوكيل
Erişim Koşulları	Unrestricted
Seçilmiş kaynakça	Studies: ‘Irāqī, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Kitāb al-ʿilm al-muktasab fī zirāʿat al-dhahab: Book of knowledge concerning the cultivation of gold , Eric John Holmyard, ed. and trans., (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1923) Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 391-92

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‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq Eyes of facts and clarification of methods ‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Iraqi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

( عيون الحقائق وايضاح الطرائق عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد)

Publication Date 17th century (CE, Gregorian)

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 1

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v

Record ID vdc_100023587816.0x000002

Library Location British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Date 17th century (CE, Gregorian)

Notes An exhaustive treatise on the magical arts based upon writings attributed to Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Galen as well as more recent authorities. The author's name is given in full as Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-‘Irāqī Khusrawshāh (أبو القاسم أحمد ابن محمد المعروف بالعراقي بخسروشاه [!], the last name should probably be read al-Khusrawshāhī [الخسروشاهي]; f. 52, lines 20-21). The treatise was written in the latter half of the 13th century since its preface mentions the reigning Mamluk Sultan, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn (i.e. Baybars I al-Bunduqdārī, r. 658/1260-676/1277; f. 50v, line 6), his son Barakah (f. 51r, line 18), and his vizier Bahā’ al-Dīn (f. 51r, line 5; see Holmyard's introduction to Abu al-Qāsim al-ʿIrāqī's, Kitāb al-ʿilm al-muktasab, 1923, p. 3). It begins with a dedicatory preface (ff. 50v-51r, line 20), and an introduction that includes a list of the treatises thirty chapters (أبواب; ff. 51r, line 20-52v, line 3). Begins (f. 50v, lines 2-3):الحمد لله الذي أطلع لنا من مشارق الأرض شموسًا لا يتم خط سياح الملكوالشريعة المحمدية الأبهم وهديهم من الضلالة لحفظ رعيته من المؤمنين Ends (f. 87v, lines 13-17):اعلم يا أخي أن هذه الحروف يتعلق بالكواكب السبعةالسيارة ومعرفة خواصها وما يناسب كل حرفمنها إلى أي معدن فافهم ومعك الله لطاعتهوجنبك عن معصيته والله حسبيونعم الوكيل

Erişim Koşulları Unrestricted

Seçilmiş kaynakça Studies: ‘Irāqī, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Kitāb al-ʿilm al-muktasab fī zirāʿat al-dhahab: Book of knowledge concerning the cultivation of gold , Eric John Holmyard, ed. and trans., (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1923) Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 391-92