Author
the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī
Publication Date
18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
ara,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
315 x 190 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Delhi Arabic 994 vol 1, ff 1-264
Record ID
vdc_100127437338.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Volume one of an encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muhammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī (Muhammad Ali ibn Ali ibn al-Qazi Muhammad Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Saber al-Faruqi al-Tahanowi, d. after 1745).
The text begins with a preface (ff. 1v-2r) followed by a long introduction (al-Muqaddamah, ff. 2r-37r) in which the author outlines the various types of knowledge, their parts and how they must be approached and presented in scholarly literature.
The encyclopaedia entries follow in alphabetical order with a chapter (bab) for each initial letter, and each chapter is subdivided into sections (sections) again arranged alphabetically by the final letter of each item of terminology. The encyclopaedia begins with the entry on
punishment
(Literature, from Chapter
alif
, section
bāʾ
[Chapter A, Chapter Al-Ba' al-Muhada], f. 37r), and volume one ends in the entry on
al-ḥawālah
(Al-Hawāla, from Chapter ḥāʾ, section lām [Bab al-Haʾa al-Mahmla, chapter lām al-Hasil], f. 264v). The majority of the entries are in Arabic, but some are in Persian.
The historical front flyleaves (foliated 1A-F to 1F-F) contain calculations in Kaithi script.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 3-4):
Praise be to Allah, Who created man, endowed him with the knowledge of expression, and endowed him with the virtues of kindness and instinctive intelligence
And the sign of knowledge and prayer on the existence of mercy for the worlds Muhammad, the Messenger of the angels and the greatest gathered
Ends (f. 264v, lines 17-19):
... And when you enter a remittance that does not exist in it, it is not a religious facility
The impossible on him if before the referral is established in his claim to the impossible and that justice of the definition of the sheikhs by that quote
The one who issues the remittance to the remittance and does not issue the remittance to the borrower
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Köken
The Government of India, its seal with central legend 'Delhi MSS' (f. 2r)
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions:
al-Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʿAlī,
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn = A Dictionary of the Technical Terms Used in the Sciences of the Musalmans
, edited by Mawlawies Mohammad Wajih, Abd al-Haqq and Gholam Kadir, under the superintendence of Dr. Aloys Sprenger and Captain W. Nassau Lees ([Calcutta]: W.N. Lees, 1862)
al-Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʿAlī,
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn
(al-Astānah: Maṭbaʿat Iqdām bi-Dār al-Khilāfah, 1317 [1899 or 1900])
al-Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʿAlī,
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn wa-al-ʿulūm al-islāmīyah
, ed. By ʿAlī Daḥrūj, Silsilat Mawsūʿāt al-Muṣṭalaḥāt al-ʿArabīyah wa’l-Islāmīyah, 2 vols (Beirut: Maktabat Lubnān Nāshirūn, 1996)
Study:
Lala, Ismail, ‘An Analysis of Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Tahānawī’s Approach in
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn
– The Entry of
huwiyya
’,
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
17 (2017), 14-34
