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
kitap
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 2, ff 265-568
Record ID
vdc_100127437338.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Volume two of an encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī (Muhammad Ala bin Ali bin Al-Qadi Muhammad Hamid bin Muhammad bin Saber Al-Faruqi Al-Thanawi, d. after 1745).
The foliation is continuous between the two volumes so that volume two begins with f. 265r, which contains the remainder of the entry on
al-ḥawālah
(Hawala, from Chapter
ḥāʾ
,section
lām
[Chapter on the neglected Hā’, chapter on the Lām maḥīl]).The manuscript is defective at end and ends abruptly in the entry on
al-ṣalm
(The Salam) at the beginning of Chapter
ṣād
,section
mīm
(Chapter Al-Sad Fasl Al-Mim, f. 568v). The majority of the entries are in Arabic, but some are in Persian.
The historic front flyleaves (foliated 1A-B to 1G-B) contain calculations in Kaithi script, which are unrelated to the main text of the manuscript.
Begins (f. 265r, lines 1-2):
It does not include proof of the price for the seller to the buyer, the imposition of the lender to the borrower, and the like, because in
The first is proof of a debt to the defrauder against the defrauded, but the second is not...
Ends (f. 568v, lines 18-19):
...Separating the sound meem with the fatḥah
The silence of the lam, according to the scholars of prosody, is the falling of the peg separated from the end of the part and the part in which the salam is
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Köken
The Government of India, its seal with central legend 'Delhi MSS' (f. 568v)
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
