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PEESIAN LITEEATUEEA BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY

BYC. A.

STOREY

SECTION I

QUR'ANIO LITERATURE

LUZAC &461927,

CO.,

GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON.

ToProfessor A. A. Bevan, M.A., F.B.A.,

I dedicatethis

work-

PKEFACEA

COUNTERPAKT to Brockelmann's GeschichteLitteratur is urgently

der ardbischen

^-

needed by

students of Persian,

andthe

circumstances are

now unprecedentedly

favourable

for

compilation of such a work. Not only have the recent efforts of bibliographers, especially in India, added greatly to the available

information concerning manuscripts, but the publication in 1922 of Mr. E. Edwards's Catalogue of Persian printed books inthe British

Museum has

for the first time provided details of a

great collection of printed books.

be treated now

The, subject can, therefore, with a comprehensiveness that would have been

Unfortunately the libraries of Persia, the fountain-head, remain inaccessible and withoutpublished catalogues.

inconceivable a few years ago.

The mainwillIf

divisions of this

book

will

be sections devoted to

particular branches of literature, and, as a general rule, each

work

be mentioned in the section to whichis

its

subject belongs.

an author

represented

than one section, be given briefly, when available, at some one place, usually in the section devoted to the subject which embraces the greater,or most important, or best known, part of his literary output. At the same place will be given particulars of the manuscripts

by extant works appertaining to more biographical information concerning him will

works as belong to that section. His other extant works will be mentioned in the section or sectionseditions of such of his extant

and

appropriate to them, with references, where possible, to the pages on which further information, biographical or bibliographical,is

to be found.

Non-extant works do notfar as they

of this

book except in so

may

within the scope from time to time befall

cited to illustrate the nature of an author's literary activity. A similar purpose will be served by the mention in this fasciculus

VI

PREFACE

example, under al-Zawari) of some extant works which, are not concerned with the Qur'an and which will recur in their(as, for

proper places.

arrangement within each section or sub-section is chronological, an appendix at the end of the section or sub-sectionbeing reserved primarily for works whose dates are uncertain (uncertain, that is to say, at the time of inclusion, since it is to

The

be expected that, as in this fasciculus, the dates of some works included in the appendices on this ground will be ascertainedsubsequently).1

So far as the data given by the cataloguers permit, the manuscripts of early or relatively early works are for the mostpart arranged in chronological, or roughly chronological, order (broken sometimes to bring together manuscripts preserved in asingle library or for other reasons),

but in the case of late works

chronological order

is

always

specified,

even

not necessarily adhered to nor are dates when they are mentioned in theauthorities (in square brackets at

catalogues.

The biographical

the end of articles dealing with particular authors) are given fairly strictly in the order of date.

Imperfect manuscripts are for the most part distinguished as such, and in many cases it has been possible to indicate how much

works in question they contain. Koman numerals divided a hyphen and enclosed within round brackets after the by catalogue number of a manuscript refer in this fasciculus to theof the

surahs contained in the manuscript.of the British

Editions described in one

catalogues (i.e. either Mr. E. Edwards's Catalogue of Persian printed books or Mr. A. G. Ellis's Catalogue of Arabic books) are distinguished by a small circle to the rightof the date.

Museum

An

asterisk

similarly placed

indicates editions

preserved in the India Office Library. A dagger implies that the edition in question is neither described in a British Museum1

The appendices

will include also

a certain number of works which come

to notice too late to be placed in their proper chronological position.

PREFACE

Vll

catalogue nor preserved in the India Office, but is mentioned in one of the Quarterly Catalogues of Books published by the of 1867 Indian local governments since the passing of Act

XXV

(an Act for the regulation of Printing Presses and Newspapers, for the preservation of copies of books printed in British India,

and forfall

the registration of

such books).

Editions which do not

within any of the three preceding categories but which are in my own possession or have at least been seen by me are

distinguishedIt should

by a double dagger.

be remembered that some of the biographical notices

in this fasciculus are merely provisional anticipations of fuller

notices which will be given in a

more appropriate,H.L.T.

or

morefor

convenient, place. I am much indebted

to

Mr.

Gonsalves

valuable help in searching the quarterly catalogues of Indian publications, to my mother for kind assistance in arranging thematerial,

and to Messrs. Stephen Austin and Sons for their accurate and tasteful printing and for the trouble that they have taken to carry out my wishes.C. A.

STOREY.

March, 1927.

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J

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(Ithdf al-nubala' p. 266.)

jUVI

LIST OF

AUTHORITIES[Thislist

AND ABBREVIATIONSrecognised abbreviationsfor

does

not include the

well-known

periodicals nor the titles of Persian historical and biographical works A supplementary list, which will (except in a few special cases).

include

all

the abbreviations, etc., explained in the intermediate fasciculi,

will be published in the final fasciculus.]

A.S.B. Govt. Coll. 1903-07acquired on

= List

of Arabic and PersianCalcutta, 1908.

MSS.

beJialf of the

Government of India by the Asiatic

Society of Bengal during 1903-07.

1908-101908-10.

=

List

of

.

.

.

MSS.

acquired

.

.

.

during

Calcutta, [1910

?].

Aberystwyth

= The

National Library of Wales...

oriental manuscripts

.

by H. Ethe.

Catalogue of Aberystwyth, 1916.

Ahlwardt

Verzeichniss der arabischen Handschriften der Koniglichen BibliotheJc zu Berlin von W. A. Berlin, 1887-99.

=

Amal

al-amilb.

M.

al-a. fi 'ulamd' Jabal 'Amil [in Arabic], by al-Hasan al-Hurr al-'Amili. Tihran, 1302.

= A.

As'ad

= Daftar i Kutubkhanah i As ad Efendi.(

Constantinople,

n.d.

Asafiyah

== *Juy\ 4>U-

^j

*JJ

= Daftar1306.

i

Kutubkhdndh

i

'Ashir Efendi.

Constantinople,

b

X

LIST OP AUTHORITIESCat.

AND ABBREVIATIONSof the Arabic books and

Ashraf 'All Arab.

= Catalogue6

manuscripts in the Library of the Asiatic Society ofcompiled by ... Mirza A. A.Calcutta, 1899-1904.

Bengal

Athar al-sanadid

[in

Urdu], by

S.

Ahmad Khan.der

Delhi, 1263/1847.

Aumer

= Die

persischen

Handschriften

K.

Hof-

und

Staatsbibliothek in

Muenchen

beschrieben von J. A.

Munich,

1866.

Aya

Sufiyah

= Daftar

i

Kutubkhanah

i

Ay a

Sufyah.

Con-

stantinople, 1304.

Bankipur

= Catalogue

of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts in

the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore.

Prepared [so far

as the Persian \olumes are concerned] by Maulavi Abdul

Muqtadir. Patna, 1908-

Banklpur Arab. Hand-list

=

^

1$

^

^^4.

jjr\

j^N

7-

T~>

AV

Bankipur Pers. Hand-list

=

Ag^ia

= Daftar

i

Kutubkhdnah

i

Bashw Agha [Stambul],

Constantinople, 1303.

Bayazld

= ^i^-ljutU

o^Jr I jUau-L u^-OI

Jj

^lit

LIST OF AUTHOBITIESBerlin

AND ABBREVIATIONSHandschriften

XIder

=

VerzeicJiniss

der

persischen

Koniglichen Bibliothek zu Berlin von1888.

W.

Pertsch.

Berlin,

Blochet

Catalogue des manuscrits persans de la BibliothequeParis, 1905-12-

Nationak.Bodleian

= Catalogue

of the Persian..

.

.

.

manuscripts in the..

Bodleian Library begun by

.

Ed. Sachau

.

completed

.

.

.

by H. Ethe. Oxford, 1889.Breslau

=

Verzeichniss der arabischen, persischen, turkischen

und

hebrdischen

Handschriften der Stadtbibliothek von C. Brockelmann. Breslau, 1903.== Geschichte der

zu

Breslau

Brockelmann

arabischen Litteratur

wn

C.

J5.

Weimar-Berlin, 1898-1902.

Browneof

Coll.

= The

late Professor

Browne's private collection

MSS.

[His catalogue of theseSeries.]

MSS.

is

to be published

in the

Gibb Memorial

Browne Hand-list..

= A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts

.

in the Library of the University of Cambridge by E. G. B.

Cambridge, 1900.

Browne

Pers. Cat.

=A

catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in

the Library of the

University of Cambridge by E. G. B.

Cambridge, 1896.

Browne Suppt.

= A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan..

manuscripts

.

in the Libraries of the University

and

Colleges

of Cambridge by E. G. B. Cambridge, 1922.

Bughyat al-wu'at[in Arabic],

=by

B. al-w. fl tabaqdt al-lughawlym wa-l-nuhatal-Suyuti. Cairo, 1326.

Xll

LIST OP AUTHORITIES

AND ABBREVIATIONSBuhdr Library [nowin the

Buhar

= Catalogue..

raisonne of the

Imperial Library, Calcutta]..

Vol. I. Catalogue of the Persian

Begun by Maulavi Qdsim Hasir Radavi, manuscripts revised and completed by Maulavi 'Abd-ul-Muqtadir. Calcutta,1921.

Cairo

= Fihrist

al-kutub al-Fdrislyah wa-'l-JawlyaJi al-mahfuzah

bi-'l'KtitubJchanat al- Khidmiyat

al-Misnyah

.

.

.

jama'ahu

wa-rattabahu 'All Efendl Hilml al-Ddghistam. Cairo, 1306.Calcutta

Madrasah

= Catalogue

of

the

Arabic

and Persian

manuscripts in the Library of the Calcutta Madrasah by

Kamdlu 'd-Dm Ahmad and 'Abdu1905.

'l-Muqtadir.

Calcutta,

Cataloghi

= Catakghi

dei codici orientali di alcune biblioteche

d'ltalia.

Florence, 1878-1904.

Chanykov

morgenlandischen Handschriften, welche die Kaiserliche Qffentliche BibliotheJc zu St. Petersburg

= Die Sammlung vonv.

im Jahre 1864 von Urn

Chanykov envorben

hat.

Von B.

Dorn. St. Petersburg, 1865.Chelebl(

Abd

Allah

= Daftar

i

KutubMdnah

i

Chelebl 'A.

A.

Efendi.

Constantinople, 1311.

Christensen-0strup

= ^Description

de

quelques

manuscrits

orientaux appartenant a la Biblioth&qiie de VUniversite de

Copenhague* par A. C. et J.0. (Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger, 1915, no. 3-4,pp. 255-84.)Const. == Constantinople.

Cureton-Rieu == Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur Pars secunda, codicesArabicos ampkctens. [By

W.

Cureton and C. Kieu.] London,

1838-71.

LIST OF AUTHORITIES

AND ABBREVIATIONS

Xlll

D.M.G.

= Katalog der Bibliothek der Deutschen MorgenldndischenZweiter

Gesellschaft.

Band:

Handschriften.

Teil

B:. . .

Persische

und Hindustanische Handschriften

bearbeitet

von

Mahommed Musharraf-ul-Huklc.DecourdemancheI

Leipzig, 1911.

Blochet of MSS. presented to the Bibliotheque Nationale in 1905 by M. D.] (Bibliographic

= [A list by E.

Moderne,

Tome

x, pp. 214-34.)

Decourdemanche II(donnee aBlochet.la

=

Une

collection de

manuscrits musulmans

Bibliotheque Nationale par

M.2,

D.).

Par E193-282.

(Archives

Marocaines,

xv,

pp.

Paris, 1909.)

Decourdemanche IIIMile.

= Inventairein 1916]

de la collection de manuscrits

musulmans de M. D. [presented to theWendlingviii,

par E.

Blochet.

Nat. by e (J.A. xi serie,Bibl.

TomeDorn

pp. 305-423.)des manuscrits

= Catalogue

et

xylographes orientaux de la

Bibliotheque Implriale Publique de St. Petersbourg.

[By

B. Dorn.]

St. Petersburg, 1852.

Dorn A. M.der

=

Das

Asiatische

Museum der

Kaiserlichen Akademie

St. Petersburg. Wissenschaften Bernh. D. St. Petersburg, 1846.

zu

Von

.

.

.

Dr.

Dresden

= Catalogus

codicum

manuscriptorumScripsit.. .

orientaliumFleischer.

Bibliothecae Regiae Dresdensis.

H. 0.

Leipzig, 1831.

Edinburgh

=A

descriptive catalogue of the Arabic

and Persian

manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library.

By Mohammed..

Ashraful

Hukk

.

.

.,

H. Eth6

.

.

.,

and E. Robertson

.

Edinburgh, 1925.

XIV

LIST OF AUTHORITIES

AND ABBREVIATIONS

Edwards

= A catalogue of the Persian printed books in the Britishcompiled by Edward E...

MuseumEllis

.

London, 1922.

= Catalogue

of Arabic books in the British

Museum.

By

A.G.E. London,Ellis- Edwards

1894-1901.list

=A

descriptive

of the Arabic manuscripts

acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 compiled by A. G. Ellis and E. Edwards. London, 1912.

Ethe

==

Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of

the

India

Office

ly H. E.

Oxford, 1903-

[The second volume of this catalogue, containing the indexes with a few additional descriptions, is in the press.]

Eton

of the oriental manuscripts in the Library of Eton College compiled ~by D. S. Margoliouth. Oxford, 1904.

= Catalogue

Ewald

=

Verzeichniss

der

orientalischen

Handschriften

der

Universitats-Bibliothek zu Tubingen.

Tubingen, 1839.desbibliothequesxuiii:

Fagnan

= Catalogue

general

des

manuscrits

publiques de France.

Par E. F.Fatih

Departements. 1893. Paris,

Tome

Alger,

= Daftar i Fdtih Kutubkhanah-si. = al-F.al-b.

Constantinople, n.d.[in

al-Fawctid al-bahlyahArabic],Fleischer

fl tarajim al-HanaflyahCairo, 1324.

by M. 'Abd al-Haiy Lakhnawi.

= Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum qui in BibliothecaH. 0.F.).

Senatoria Civitatis Lipsiensis asservantur (Codices arabicipersici turcici descripti ab

Grimae, 1838.

Fliigel

= Die arabischen, persischen und tiirkischen HandschriftenKaiserlich-KoniglichenHofbibliothek

der

zu

Wien

.

.

.

beschrieben

vom

Professor Dr. G. F.

Vienna, 1865-7.

LIST OF AUTHORITIES

AND ABBREVIATIONS

XV

G.

i.

P.

= GrundrissGeiger und E.

der iranischen Philologie herausgegeben von

W.Garcin

Kuhn. Strassburg, 1896-1904.dela

de

Tassy

= HistoireM.

literatureed.

hindouie

et

hindoustanie par

G. de T.

2nd

Paris, 1870-1.

Glasgow = The Persian and Turkish manuscripts in the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow. ByT.H.Weir. (JRAS. 1906, pp. 595-609.)

Gotha

= Die persischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen BibliothekVerzeichnet von Dr.

zu Gotha.

W.

Pertsch.

Vienna, 1859.et..

H.Kh.

= Kashf.. .

al-zunun

.

.

.

Lexicon.

bibliographicum..

eiwyclopaedicum a ... Haji Khal\l]fa G. Fluegel Leipzig, 1835-58. edidit

compositum

.

Hablb

al-siyar

= H.

al-s.

fl

akhbdr

afrdd

al-bashar.

By

Khwandamir.

Bombay, 1273/1857.

Hadd'iq al-Hanafiyah [in Urdu. Completed A.U. 1297], by Faqir Muhammad Lahauri. Lucknow, 1906.

Haft iqlim, by

Amin Ahmad RazL

The

references are to thein his description

numbers given by Eth6 to the biographies of the I.O.MS. Ethe724.HaidarabadColl.

= Author-Catalogue of the HaidardMd Collectionby Nawwabof

of manuscripts and printed books [presented'Aziz

Jang Bahadur

Haidarabad to the Asiatic Society

of Bengal].

Calcutta, 1913.der

HamburgTeil

= KatalogI.

orientalischen

Stadtbibliothek zu

Hamburg

der Handschriften mit Ausschluss der hebrdischen.. .

Die arabischen, persischen Handschriften beschrieben von C. Brockelmann. Hamburg, 1908..

XVI

LIST OF AUTHORITIES

AND ABBREVIATIONS&*.&&XL**v^r* 1,3

Hamidiyah\t*

=

-4*

^l3

*

Horn Pers. Hss. = Von P. Horn.475-509.)

Persische Handschriften in Constantinopel.

(ZDMG.

liv

(1900),

pp.

275-332

and

Houtum-Schindler

= The Persian manuscripts of the late Sir AlbertByE. G. Browne. (JRAS.

Houtum-Schindler, K.C.I.E.1917, pp. 657-94.)

I.H.

= Kashf al-hujubMawlavi

wal astdr 'an asma' al-kutub wal asfar,

or the Bibliography of Shi'a literature, of

Mawlana FjazEdited

Husain al-Kantun

[or

rather

al-Kinturi].

by

M. Hidayat 1912-14Calcutta,1.0.

Husain.

(Bibliotheca

Indica.)

have been prefixed to the designations of certain manuscripts not describedOfl&ce,

= India

London.

These

initials

in Ethe's catalogue.

Ithaf al-nubala'

= I. al-n. al-muttaqin bi-ihya' ma'dthir al-fuqahdCawnpore, 1288.

9

al-muhaddithm, by Siddiq Hasan Khan.I vanow

= Concise descriptive catalogue of the Persian manuscriptsBy Wladimir I.

in the collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.Calcutta, 1924.

Ivanow Curzon

== Concise

descriptive catalogue of the

Persian

manuscripts in the Curzon Collection. Asiatic Society ofBengal.

By W. L

Calcutta, 1926.catalogue of the collection of Persian

Jackson-Yohannanmanuscripts..

=A.

presented to the Metropolitan

Museum

of

Art, York, by A. S. Cochran. Prepared and edited by A. V. Williams Jackson and A. Yohannan. New York,. ..

New

1914.

LIST OF AUTHORITIES

AND ABBREVIATIONS

XV11

al-Jawdhir al-mudi'ahArabic],

= al-J.

al-m. fl tabaqdt al-Hanafiyah [inb.

by 'Abd al-Qadir

Abl '1-Wafa' M. al-Qurashl.

Haidarabad, 1332.de Jong

= Catalogue codicum orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae

Regiae Scientiarum quern a dar. Weijersio inchoatum, post hujus mortem absolvit et edidit Dr. P. de J. Leyden, 1862.

Kamankash

=

Daftar

i

Kutubkkdnah

i

Amir

Khwdjdh

Kamankash.Karlsruhe

Constantinople, n.d..

Handschriften der Hof- und LandesII Orientalische Handschriften. Karlsruhe. bibliothek in [The Arabic and Persian described by S. Landauer.]..

= Die

Karlsruhe, 1892.

Khazmat

al-asfiya\

by Ghulam Sarwar LahaurL"

3rd

ed.

Cawnpore, 1914.

Khizdnah

i

'amirah,

by

Ghulam

'AH

Azad "

BilgramL

Cawnpore, [1871],Khuldsat al-athar

fl a'yan al-qarn al-hadi ashar [in Arabic], by al-Muhibbi. Cairo, 1284.al-a.

=

Kh.

c

Krafft

= Die arabischenK.K.

y

persischen

und

turkischen Handschriftenbeschrieben

der

Orientalischen

Akademie zu Wien,

von A. K. Vienna, 1842.Lalah-li

= Daftar

i

Kutubkhdnah

i

Ldlah-U.

Constantinople,

1311.

Leyden

= Catalogue

codicum orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae

[by Dozy, Houtsma], Leyden, 1851-77.Lincei

Lugduno-Batavae

de

Jong,

de

Goeje

and

= Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Rome.

The

references are

to the issues of the Rendiconti (Classe di science morali,storiche e filologiche) in which the manuscripts are catalogued.

XV111

LIST OP AUTHORITIES

AND ABBREVIATIONSHand-list of Oriental

Lindesiana

= Bibliotheca

Lindesiana.

manuscripts.

Arabic, Persian, Turkish.

[Now

in the

John

Rylands Library at Manchester.]

Aberdeen, 1898.

Loth

=A

catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library ofOffice.

the

India

By

0. L.

London, 1877.RegiaeUniversitatis

Lund

= Codices

orientaks

Bibliothecae

Lundensis recensuit C. J. Tornberg. Lund, 1850.

Suppkmenta.

Lund, 1853.

M.

Idris

= Tatyib al-ikhwan bi-dhikr 'ulama* al-zaman [in Urdu],Idris

by M.Madras

Nagarami.

Lucknow, 1897.

= AlphabeticalMSS.

Oriental

Index of manuscripts in the Government Library, Madras. Madras, 1893.

Mahbub al-albdb = M. al-a. fl ta'rif al-kutub wa-l-kuttab> by Khuda Bakhsh. [A catalogue of Kb. B.'s private library now preserved in the Oriental Public Library founded by him at Bankipur.] Haidarabad, 1314.Majalis al-mu'minm, byc

Nur Allah

Shushtarl.b.

Tihran, 1299

[?].

Majdlis

al- ushshaq on Surah

xciii,

compiled by Baha'

[al-Din] b. (?)

Mahmud b. Ibrahim from other commentaries,of

an$ the writingsA?aliyahi

Hamid al-Dm Nagaur!Ivanow 1298(1),

p. 478, Bodleian 1811,

Curzon 435.(21)

al-Muhit al-a'gam ftal-Husainl al-Amuli:

tafsir

al-Qur'dn, by Haidar(11) (short extract only).

Ivanow 1142

" ^.Kh/mentions a tafsir entitled Kofihfal-astdr by al-Imam al-BazdawI ". The author was living at Lahore in the seventies of last century. Several books by him will be mentioned in the course of this work.1

8

A.

TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIESy

:

APPENDIX

31

(22)

al-Mustakhlas flBukhari1:

l-tafslr (a glossary Ffitih 645.

?),

by Hafig al-Din

(23)(24)

QissahQissah

i

Yusuf(m:

40 majdlis)

:

Cairo p. 523.. ..

Yusiif (beg. al-Hamd lillah LO. D.P. 12 (incomplete). tawada', etc.)i

al-a'la 'lladM

(25)

Rdhat al-Mu'minmEdition:

(on

Ixvii),

by Nur Muhammad

:

Lahore 1886f.i:

(26)

Risdlah Risdlah(xii

Alif

Lam Mlm

Ghulibat al-Rum, on xxx

1-5, Shi'ite(27)i

de Jong 182 (11) (A.H. 860).

idh qdla Yusufu li-ablhi> on Joseph's dream de Jong 182 (3) (A.H. 860). 4-6), Shfite:

(28)

Risdlah(A.H. 860).

i

Ruh, onsharki

xvii 87,

Shfite

:

de Jong 182

(5)

(29)

RisdlahA?afiyahi

i

suwar

i

arba'ah, by Ghulam Jilam

:

p. 566.

(30)

Riydd

al-abrdr^ by:

MuhammadA?afiyahi

Sadiq

b.

'Abd al-Baqi

K

Izz al-Din Farg^am(31)

p. 566.

Shifd' al-qulub) after a fast on fhefadd'il i Qur'dn gives a ufistic commentary on Surah xxxv 29. Date (of compositionor copying?)

833/1429

:

Berlin 182a.tafsir:

(32)

Surur al-arwdh4

[fl

'ala

tiqadat al-Bawafid]

ba'4 al-ayat al-Qur'aniyah Cairo p. 408.:

(33)

Tabjll al-Tanzil, by Saiyid Abu Mansur M. b. M. 'All Editions Delhi [1890. Pp. 1-54 only ?], Delhi [1903. Pt.:

i

(i-ii

253) onlyi

?].

(34)

(Tafsir(A.H. 867).

Abu Bakr

b.

'UmarQur'an:

b.

commentary on parts

of the

*l-Fadf)> Ellis-Edwards p. 1

Abl

1

The person usually so called, Abuii

'1-Fadl

M.

b.

M.

b.

(see al-Jawahir al-mudi'ah

121-2, cd-Fawa'id al-bahiyah 199).

Nasr, died in 693/1294 Perhaps, as

Horn suggested (ZDMG. 1900, p. 286), M. Parsa al-Hafizi al-Bukhari (see above, p. 7) is the person really intended. If so, this work may be identical with the Tafsir i M. Parsa mentioned on p. 8 supra.

32

i.

QUR'ANIC LITERATUREShfite

(35)

Tafsir

i

'Ah 'Azim Khan,Nadhlr

:

Buhar 152-4ii.

(Siiralis i-xcix),

Ahmad

10 (half of Surah

Mirza

M.(36)

'All

Khan's Library, Lucknow).

Tafsir i asrdr al-Fdtihah, by Mulla Khair Muhammad Edition Lucknow 1890f (cf Asafiyah i p. 562). Pashawari:

:

.

(37)

Tafsirsee

i

Ayaiwho

al-Kursi>

by M. Baqiror:

b.

M. Taql

[al-Majlisi(?),

died in 1010/1601-2etc.]

1011/1602-3,

Rauddt al-janndt 118, I.E. 360,

Bankipur Pers.

Hand-list 1114.(38)

Tafsir (SharkCairo p. 524 ult.

ace. to the Cairo Cat.) i

Ayat al-Kursiby M. Hasan:

:

(39)

Ayat al-sharifah Edition: Ludhiana 189lf.Tafsiri

i

Istikhlaf,

(40)

Tafsir

i

'aziz

(?),

by Mulla Husain Kashghari

:

Ross and14).

Browne 119 (Surahs xxxvi-xxxviii and Ixxviii-lxxxix(41)

Tafsir

i

ba'd:

i

suwarAafiyahi

i

Qur'dni, by Mu'mf?]562 no. 302.

b.

Mahmud(42)

ShirazI

p.

Tafsir i Dalll al-Rahmdn, by Dalll al-Rahman b. Khair al-Dln Bankipur Pers. Hand-list 1115-20 (19th cent.).:

{43)

Nur by Maulawi 'Ibid Husain Bulandshahr 1894f.i:

{47)

Tafsir

Surat al-Fdtihah, by Abu Bakr HusainAs'ad 89.

al-Khalidl{48)

Tafsir

i

Surat al-Fatihah, by

al-Saiyid al-Husaim

al-Bi(Jawi 'Ubaid Allah

Khan:

al-Dihlawi(1).

surnamed Mir

Jumlah Bahadur Tarkhan

Ethi 2698

A.

TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIESi

:

APPENDIX

33

(49)

Tafsir

Surahb.

M. Ma'sum(50) (51)

i Innd a'taindka (cviii), by Abu 'l-'Ismat Baba Samarqandi Ivanow 970 (2).:

Tafsir

i

Surat al-Muddaththir Surat al-Mulk

(Ixxiv):

:

Eth6 1765

(5).

TafsirTafsirAsaflyah

i ii

(Ixvii), Shi'ite

1.0.

D.P. 116.i

(52)

Surahp.

i

Muzzammil (Ixxiii), by GJmlam Jilani:

564 no. 308.Ettrf 1765 (5).

(53) (54)

Tafsir

i

Surat al-Muzzammil

Tafsir i Surat al-Naba' (Ixxviii), by 'Aba al-Kahim B*mld!yah p. 110 Samarqandi (d. 1018/1609-10) (?):

no. 156.(55)

TafsirEfendi

i

Surat al-Naba? by Hammami-Zadah',

:

Yahyft

16.

(56)

Surat al-Qadr (xcvii), by Ibrahim Darwlsh al-Bukhari Aya uflyah 411.Tafsiri:

(57)

Tafsir

i

Surat al-Tauhld

(cxii),

al-Eidawi 'Ubaid Allah EthS 2698 (2).(58)(59)(60)

Khan

al-Saiyid al-Husaini al-Dihlawi (see no. 48 supra) :

by

Tafsir

i i i i

Surah

ii

Ya-Sln, by

the same:

:

Eth6 2698

(4).

TafsirTafsir

SurahSurah

Ya-SlnyYitsuf:

Shi'ite

1.0. D.P. llo.

i i

As'ad 101.Pers. Hand-list 1127.

(61)(62)

Tafsir Tafsirno.

Surah

Yusuf: Bankipuri

i

(63)

Tafsir i1).

Surah SurahSurah

Yusuf:

Chelebi 'Abd Allah 19.p. 595

i

Yusuf: Glasgow (JKAS. 1906

(64) (65)

Tafsir

i i

ii

Yusuf: Peshawar Yusuf: Seealso

28.

Tafsirsupra.

Surah

Qjssah

i

Yusuf:

(66)

Tafslrat i karlmah, by Faid M. Panjabi

:

Edition

Bombay

1899f.

34

i.

QUR'ANIC LITERATURE

(67)

Tanwlr al-dujd fl tafsir surat Wa-l-duha M. Qamar al-Dln Edition Lahore 1904f.: :

(xciii),

by

(68)

Tarjamah182

i

Ayat al-Kursl

(ii

256), Shi'ite

:

de Jong

(4) (A.H. 860).

(69)

Tarjamah

i

Ma'dlim al-Tanzll>

a translation of the:

well-known Arabic tafsir of al-Bagha\vi(70)

Qarah MuJafa

100.

Taudlh: Buharincomplete.

151 (Surahs 1-22), Ivanow 968 (slightly 16th cent. ?).

(71)(72)

Taudlh

(?)

(different

from the preceding)

:

1.0.?):

D.A. 18.Bankipur

Taudlh (identical with one of the preceding Pers. Hand-list 1130 (16th cent.).

(73)

Tuhfat al-mu'minln fl tafsir i Pdrah yatasd'aluri) metrical, by M. Farhad Qandahari:

i:

'Amma

Edition(74)

Lahore 1905.

Wasllat al-qabul ild Hadrat al-Rasul (on Surah i), 1.0. D.P. 3L by 'Abd al-Kahim b. Nasr Allah al^Alawi:

(6)

Miscellaneous unidentified Commentaries

(This section contains only a selection from the unidentified commentaries and fragments of commentaries mentioned in

the catalogues)(1) (2)

Oni-xvii, strongly Shi'iteOni-xviii, Shfite:

:

Rieu

i

126.

Rieu Suppt.

2.:

(3)(4)

On

ix 41-xvii (not al-Surabadi)xviii

Blochet 31 (13th cent.).

On

75-xxv 22

:

Ellis-Edwards p. 1 (13th-14th cent.).:

(5)

On

xxix 44-xxxviii 51

Eth6 2697.

(6)

On

xxxix-?, probably composed in llth cent.:

Browne

Coll.

(see

Edwards

in

Browne Volume,

p. 138).

B.

GLOSSARIES

35

(7) (8)

OnOn

xlix-cxiv: Leyden iv 1691 (before A.H. 873).liii-cxiv (possibly al-Surabadi):

Blochet 30 (A.H. 780).

(c)

Anonymous

Translations

Anonymous

translations are not infrequently to be found

and other manuscripts of the Qur'an, and little would be gained by enumerating all those mentioned in the various catalogues. The following will serve as specimens Ahlwardt 1031, 10246-7. A?afiyah i pp. 2-3 nos. 6-7.in Persian, Indian,:

Aumer Arab.12-14(?),

Cat.

10, 54.

Bankipiir Arab. Hand-list

1,i

2, 8,

15-17, 19-20, 27, 29, 30-1, 58, 72, 82.

Blochet

24, 32.

Pers. Cat. 16-17. Cairo Arab. Cat. i pp. 4, 29. Christensen-0strup 1. Dorn 12. Dresden 252. Eth6 2677, 2969. Leyden 1610-11. Lindesiana p. 57 (1). Nadhlr Ahmad Arabic

Browne

MSS.15th,

3.

Rieu

i

6a, 7a, 76,

8a (6

MSS,33.

1

of 14th cent., 1 of

and 2

of 16th).

Rosen M.A. no.

Upsala 373. Vatican

20

(55).

Browne Pers. Cat. 18 is apparently a Persian version detached from the Qur'anic text.Persian translation

page from a Qur'dn dated A.H. 607 with an interlinear is reproduced in Moritz's Arabic Palceography, Plate 87 (cf. Plate 85 for a similar Qur'an of the twelfth century). Anonymous translations have been lithographed or printed

A

in Qur'ans published at the following places

among

others

:

[Tihran] 1260, 1272, Tihran 1283, [Bombay] 1275, Bombay 1279, Delhi 1285.

B.50.

GLOSSARIESb.

Zain al-Din(d.

Muhammad:

Abi '1-Qasim al-Baqq&li

al-

Khawarazmi

562/1166-7) composed

Tardjim al-ctajimde Jong 128

H.Kh.

ii

2877,

Aya

ufiyali

4664 bis-4666,

(1), Ffitih 5176.

36

i.

QUR'ANIC LITERATURE

A51.

revised and enlarged editioniv p. 26 (A.H. 700).b.

by Sarim

b.

M. al-Amasi:

Leyden

1 Taj al-Din Abi '1-Hasan ['All ] b. Abi Bakr ibn Abi Sa'id al-Hafiz al-Sufi al-Bakri al-MultSnl al-Hanafi

Abu Bakrlshaq

called Ibn al-Tftjal-kajj

composed an Arabic work on the mandsik (Ahlwardt 4046), another Arabic work entitled Khuldsatbi-skard'it

al-ahkdm

al-imdn wa-'l-isldm (abridged in Arabic9

and Persian under the title Khuldsat al-dm bi-shard it al-lmdn wa-l-yaqm. See Ahlwardt 1798-9), and in A.H. 717 at Multan

Khuldsat Jawdhir al-Qufdn ft baydn met dm lughdtal-Furqdri) Persian explanations or discussions of Qur'anic words (one from each surah apparently) Ahlwardt 876 = Berlin 30 (autograph written at Cairo in 734).:

[Brockelmann52.

ii

220.]

The Amir S. 'AH b. Shihab al-Dm HainadanI, the Apostle of Kashmir ", a celebrated saint and the author of the Dhakhwat al-muluk and other works which will be mentionedhereafter, died in 786/1385.

"

Farhang[Rieu

iii

Mir

Saiyid *All

:

Bodleian 1652.

447, etc.]

53. al-Saiyid al-8harif 'All b.

M. al-Jurjani, born in Sha'ban

2 740/1340 at Tag^u, a village near Astarabad, was a pupil of Mubarak-Shah the logician and of Akmal al-Dm al-Babarti

In 779/1377-8 (Br. ii 80), with both of whom he read at Cairo. he was presented by al-Taftazani to the Muzaffarid Shah Shuja', who appointed him to a professorship in the Dar al-Shifa' atShiraz.

When Timur

conquered Shiraz in 789 he transferred

On Timur's death he returned to al-Jurjam to Samarqand. Shiraz and died there in 816 3 /1413. His works, more than 50 innumber, were mainly Arabic text-books or commentaries on1

any2

So Ahlwardt, but this name does not seem to be expressly mentioned in " Lehr brief " of the manuscripts. The name is given most fully in the

Ajilwardt 154.

NotTadjuasin^ncy.M.In 814 according to al-'Aim (quoted in Fawa'id).

3

B.

GLOSSARIES

37

Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Law, Philosophy, etc., but a few Persian works are ascribed to him, including the Sarf i Mir, the Nahw i Mir, the Sughra, and thepopular

text-books

in

Kubrq.

Tarjumdn al-Qur'dn?

Persian explanations of most of the words in the Qur'dn in the order in which they occur Eth6 2699 (A.H. 858), Browne Pers. Cat. 19, 'Ashir p. 175 no.:

428

(?),

Ivanow Curzon

338.

Two

rearrangements of this work in alphabetical order have

been preserved(1)

By

Taj

b.

M.

b.

Ibrahim al-Hashimi

:

Eth

by Hakim6).

'Imad Nagaurl: Rampur

(Nadhir(2)

Ahmad

Jdmi* Mufraddt a1-Qur*dn, by M. Murad KashmiriAqsarSy 91 (also AyS Sufiyah 298?).

:

(3)

Tarjumdn al-Qur'dn, by Abual-Zauzani: Gotha Arab. Cat. 401.

Ja'far

M.

b.

M.

b. Khalll

(4)

Wddih al-baydnA^afiyahii

ft lughdt al-Qwfdri) by M. Salah: p. 1462 no. 156 (autograph).

57. Glossaries(1)

by unknown authors

:

AySguftyah 4837(1).LO. D.P. 562a.

(2) (3)

Jawdhir cd-Qur'dn:(defective at beginning).

A?afiyah

ii

p.

1452

no.

264

(4)

Ehuldsah

i

Mustakhlas al-mctdnl: EtW

2701, Ivanow

Curzon 346.(5)

Mustafehlaf al-mctanl : BSnkipur Edition: Bareilly 1866. (A.H. 1250).

Pers. Hand-list 1164

(6)

Risdlah fl mu'arrdb alfag al-Qur*dn wa-'l-hadltkCairo p. 533.

:

C.

PEONUNCIATION AND1 l

VARIANT READINGS

39

(7)

Tarjuman al-Qur'anTarjumdn al-Qur'an

:

Berlin 232 (8) (fragment).

(8)

: 1.0.

D.A. 984 (defective at end).

THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE QUR'lN AND THE VARIANT READINGS (TAJWlD AND QIRA'AT)C.58.

The well-known metricalcomposed byHirzal-amdnl

treatise

of the Qur'dntitle

al-Stoatibi (d.

wa-wajh

on the variant readings 590/1194) under the al-taharii and usually called

al-Qasldat al-Shatifayah or simply al- Shatibiyah (Brock, i 409) has been translated, commented on, and recast in Persian.(a)(1)

Translations:

:

Text with a Persian translation

Walidahfoil.

i

'Atlq Jami' 20.

(2)

A

translated extract(b)

:

Riigel 1637:

46-7a.

Commentaries

(1)

Iddh al-ma'drii fi shark Hirz al-amdm,Meccain 1099:

written at

Peshawar 1097

(b).

(2)

Ijdz al-mcfarii fl shark Hirz al-amdnl^ by Husain 'Uthman A?aHyah i p. 306 no. 46.:

b.

(3)

Kashf al-amanl fi l-SaV al-Matham, byAllahb.

9

M.

b.

'Abd

Mahmud

:

Aya

uflyah 57.

(4)(5)

Qutblyah shark i Shdtibtyah : Peshawar 1079. Shark i Qa$ldah i Shatibiyah (metrical) Aya ufiyah 34.:

(6)

Shark15bis.

i

Qasldat al-Shdtibiyah (mamzuj):

:

Kamankash

(7)(8)

Sikandar-Shdhi

Peshawar 1091.

Tarjamat al-jaridah fi shark al-Qasidah> by Qasim b. Ibrahim b. M. Qazwim Bankipur Pers. Hand-list 1167:

(16th cent.), Decourdemanche Peshawar 1096.1

ii

Arabe 6314

(A.H. 870),

For works with this

title see also pp.

37 and 38.

40

i.

QUR'ANIC LITERATUREEecastings:

(c)

(1)

EtW

2702

(2).

(2)

See Mullaqat

i

Hirz dl-amani,ii

59 below.

(3)

DecourdemancheM.b.

S.P. 1673 (15).

59. al-Sharif

Mahmud2,

b.

M. 1

b.

Ahmad

b.

'All

al-

Samarqandi al-Baghdadi was according to H. Kh. the grandson of Nasir al-Dm [M. b. Yusuf al-Husaim al-Samarqandi 3 ], who died in 556/1161, and he must therefore have flourished notlong after the year A.D. 1200.(1)9

al-Mdbsut wa-'l-madbut fl l-qird'dt al-saV : H.Kh. v 1 1332, Nadhir Ahmad 3 (Ahmad AlJah Library, Moradabad).

(2)

Multaqat

i

Hirz al-amdrii *,

a metrical treatise based on

the Shatiblyah (see:

Manthur i Sinam Berlin 181Possibly by60. Hafiz

58) with a prose commentary entitled Multaqat i Hirz al-amdrii, by M. b. Ahmad(4).is

this

author

EthS 2702 ("Kitabal-JZahlr

i qird'at").

i

Eumi M.

b.

Yusuf

composed in 776/1374-5readings

at

Khwarizm

Matlub al-qari\ a metrical treatise on the variant in 780 verses Rampur (Nadhir Ahmad 5).:

61.

The metrical

treatise

on the art

of reading the Qur'dn

composed by M. b. M. al-Jazari (d. 833/1429), and usually known as al-Muqaddimat al-Jazariyah (Brock, ii 202), has been translated into Persian under the title

Fard'id al-fawd*id: A?aflyah

i

p.

306 no.

45,

Bankipur

Pers. Hand-list 1168 (6) (A.H. 1145),1 8

Ivanow

972.

So Nadhir Ahmad. So Nadhir Afomad with a query.Brook,i

84

381, 413.

The

author's

name

ia

given as Mafemud b. M. b. Afcmad al-Samarqandi

al-Sharif.

C.

PRONUNCIATION AND VARIANT READINGSb.

41

It has

been translated also by 'Abd al-Kahman

Burhan

al-

Dm b. 'Abd Allah al-Sabbagh al-Haqql al-Lahauri under the titleTarjamat al-mufld ft Muqaddimat al-tajwidPers. Hand-list 1168.:

Bankipur

Persian commentary by Mufti M. Ahsan was published with the Arabic text and Zakariya' al-Ansarfs commentary at

A

Peshawar in 1288*, at Delhi in 1881f, (probably) at Lahore in 1921f.62.

188*7f,

and [1888], and

Ibn 'Imad, who(cf.

may

name

Eieu, Suppt. 348

be identical with the poet of that (2)), composed in 803/1400-1?),:

Khuldsat dl-tanzil

(al-tajwld

a metrical treatise on the

pronunciation of the Qur'dn

Ivanow

598.

63. Tahir I?fahani is doubtless identical with Tahir b. 'Arabshah al-Isfahani, who was born in 786/1384-5 according to

H.Kh.(1)

iv 9475,' 9484.l

Durr

al-farid fl 'Urn (or mcfrifaf) al-tajwld D.P. 32a, Peshawar 1083.

;

LO*

(2)

Manhal al-atshdnfi rasmKukhin 847:

al-Qur'an, written(3),

for

Shah

Peshawar 1095

'Umumi"

208.

al-Sab' "

kitdb fl qircfat Qurrff ascribed to Hafiz Isfahan! in AyS Sufiyah 44, the " " " Risdlah i mufrad i Hamzah Tahir Hafiz in ascribed to

Probably by"

this author are the

*UmfimI 213 and perhaps the Risalah

i

tajwid of Mulla

M.i

Tahir al-Qari' (A?aflyali i p. 306 no. 48), and the Tajwid la-yanfdkk (?) of Mulla M. Tahir (see p. 50 infra).64.

Y&r5

Muhammad

ibn

Khudadad Samarkand! dedicated toruler

Abuof

Bahadur Khan, the Shaibanid Transoxiana, who ruled from A.H. 939/1533 to 946/1539l-Ghazi 'Ubaid Allah

Qawd'id al-Qur'dn:and1

A?afiyah

i

p.

308 nos. 22,

92,

96,

109, BSnkipiir Pers. Hand-list 1171 (16th cent.), 1172on the variant readings by Tahir

For an Arabic metrical

treatise

aUsfaham

see Nadhir Afemad, Arabic

MSS.

6.

42

i.

QUR'ANIC LITERATUREii

(A.H.

1189),

Decourdemanche

S.P.

1673(2)-(3),

Eth