Author
Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī
Publication Date
Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134 (AH)
Publication Place
India (Burhānpūr or Surat?) -
Type
Book
Language
ara,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
195 x 130 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 824
Record ID
vdc_100023620256.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134 (AH)
Notes
Compendium of short texts, extracts and notes on scientific and philosophical subjects, compiled by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (Ahmad ibn Sulayman Gujarati; d. 1681), and completed in Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134/September-October 1722 (see note on f. 5r).
The manuscript was later owned by the compiler's grandson, Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Ghulām Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān (Muhammad Ridha ibn Ghulam Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Sulayman), at Surat, who added ten lines of verse on 18 Ramaḍān 1141/17 April 1729 (see f. 250v, lines 11-14).
Amongst the more lengthy and readily indentifiable contents are the following:
(1) Extract from Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (Qutb al-Dīn al-Shirazi),
Kitāb Nuzhat al-qulūb
(The Book of Nuzhat al-Qulub) [Arabic] (f. 1v);
(2) Extract from
Rabi‘ al-Abrār
(The Spring of the Righteous) by al-Zamakhsharī (Al-Zamakhshari) [Arabic] (ff. 2r-2v);
(3) Method for
istikh
ā
rah
(Istikhara) prayer [Persian] (f. 3v);
(4) Collection of extracts, notes and riddles on various subjects [Persian and Arabic] (ff. 5v-19r);
(5) Notes on the following text and other subjects [Persian and Arabic] (ff. 23v-25v);
(6) al-Bīrūnī (Al-Biruni),
Maqālah fī rāshīkāt al-hind
(Essay on the Rashikat of India) (ff. 26r-35v);
(7) Abū Ja‘far al-Khāzin (Abu Jaafar al-Khazin),
Burhān ākhar ‘alá al-shakl al-sābi’ from kitāb Banī Mūsá
(Further proof of the seventh form of the Book of Banu Musa) [Arabic] (ff. 36r-39r);
(8) Extracts from
Kitāb ṣanf fī fann al-rājī wa-laṭā’ifihi
(A book classified on the art of Raji and its sects),
Ta’rīkh Makkah
(History of Mecca) by Quṭb al-Khafī (The Hidden Qutb), and
Musurgia universalis
(A Book on Music; Rome: 1650) by Athanasius Kircher (Athanasius Cyrros of Frankish) [Arabic and Persian] (ff. 39v-45b);
(9) Extract from a treatise on trigonometry [Arabic] (ff. 46v-49r);
(10) Banū Mūsá (Sons of Musa),
al-Shakl al-sādis ‘ashr min Kitāb ma‘rifat misāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kurīyah
(Figure sixteen from the book Knowing the Area of Simple and Spherical Shapes) [Arabic] (ff. 50r-52v);
(11) Extracts on various geometric subjects including a passage from the
The sphaera and cylindro
(Περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου; The Book of the Sphere and the Cylinder) by Archimedes, methods for determining the direction of the qiblah at Akbārābād and Burhānpūr, and an extract entitled
al-Risālah lil-kurah al-mutaḥarikah bi-ḥarikah dā’imah
(The message is for the ball [!] that is in constant motion; perhaps
This space is moved
[Περὶ κινουμένης σφαίρας; The Moving Ball Book] by Autolycus of Pitane [Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; Otologus]) [Arabic and Persian] (ff. 53r-57v);
(12) Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Naseer al-Din al-Tusi),
Fī bayān annahu lā yumkin an yajtama‘ min ‘adadayn murabba‘ayn fardayn‘adad murabba‘
(In stating that it is not possible for two square numbers to come together as two odd square numbers) [Arabic] (f. 58r);
(13) Two riddles by Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (Bahā al-Dīn al-Amili) [Arabic] (ff. 76v-81r);
(14) Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī)
Tashrīḥ al-aflāk
[Arabic] (ff. 113v-123r);
(15) Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tankābanī (Hussein bin Ibrahim al-Tankābani),
Risālah fī ithbāt ḥudūth al-‘ālam
(A treatise on proving the existence of the world) [Arabic] (ff. 125r-128r);
(16) Yazīd ibn Mu‘āwīyah (Yazid ibn Muawiyah),
Qaṣīdah mīmīyah
(A memetic poem) [Arabic] (ff. 131r-131v and 146r);
(17) Extract from the Fifth Treatise (Message) of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ (Brothers of Purity) on music [Arabic] (ff. 140v-142v);
(18) Archimedes (Archimedes),
Kitāb fī qismat shakl samāhu bil-sīṭumāshīyūn
(A book on the division of a form called the Sitamashion) [Arabic] (ff. 143r-145r);
(19) Treatise on
tawḥīd
(Tawhid) by Muḥammad Afḍal al-Dīn (Muḥammad Afḍal al-Dīn) [defective at end; Arabic] (ff. 184r-191r);
(20) Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (Qusta ibn Luke),
Maqālah fī al-burhān ‘alá ḥisāb al-khaṭā’ayn
[Arabic] (An article on proof on the account of sinners) (ff. 191r-194r);
(21) Extract from the
al-Muḥallá
(Al-Muhalla) by Ibn Ḥazm (Ibn Hazm) [Arabic] (ff. 225r-228v);
(22) Extract from a work by Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (Bahā al-Dīn al-Amili) concerning density [Arabic] (f. 233r);
(23) A qaṣīdah by Khalid ibn Ṣawān Fayyāḍ (Khalid bin Safwan Fayyad) known as
al-‘Arūs
(The Bride) [Arabic] (ff. 234r-241r);
(24) Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī (Bahā al-Dīn al-Amili), the conclusion from the
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb
(Summary of Account) [Arabic] (ff. 249r-250r);
(25) Ten lines of verse by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Ghulām Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān (Muḥammad ibn Ghulam Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Sulayman) [Arabic] (f. 250v).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Loth, Otto,
A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
(London : Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 1043, pp. 297-99
Köken
Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Ghulām Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān (محمد رضا ابن غلام محمد بن أحمد بن سليمان), grandson of compiler: his inscription dated 18 Ramaḍān 1141/17 April 1729 at Surat (f. 250v, lines 11-14)
