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The Works of Shams Al-Dīn Al-Dailamī
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Brockelmann mentions once a certain Shams al-Dịn Abụ Thạbit Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Malik al-Dailamị as author of a treatise entitled Mir'ạt al-arwạh wa-sụrat al-aujạh, 'Erläuterung einer Figur, welche die Einteilung der Welt nach den Vorstellungen der Sîfîs von der hîchsten Region 'îlam al haira wal ‘ilm al maǵhûl bis zur tiefsten mahall aš šaitîn taht al ard darstellt’.1 The unique copy of this curious work is preserved in Gotha; and W. Pertsch when cataloguing it, having seen the entry in Hạjjị Khalịfa in which it is stated that this al-Dailamị composed al-Jam ‘bain al-tauhid wa’l-ta'zim during the year 899 (1493),2 very reasonably gave that date as his floruit. In this Brockelmann duly followed Pertsch.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 1966 , pp. 49 - 56
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1966
References
1 GAL, II, 207.
2 Kashf al-ẓerdin (ed. Flügel), II, 622, no. 4183. The entry for the Mir'ạt al-arwạh names no author.
3 Col. 351.
4 Col. 1916; cf. Flügel, VI, 280, no. 13479.
5 See Vol. v, p. 47.
6 al-Dau' al-lạmi VI, p. 85.
7 For details of this visit in 885–7/1480–2 see my Sakhawiana, pp. 3–13.
8 The nisba al-Sakhrạwị is perhaps a variant of al-Sakhrạbạdi, see al-Sam'ạnị, al-Ansạb, fol. 350a. For al-Qubaibạti see al-Dau' p. 220; Yạqạutm Mu'jam al-buldạn, VII, p. 30 (various places, including a large quarter of Damascus).
9 Extracts in Chester Beatty 4142, fols. 24–7, 88.
8 Cited ibid., fol. 23b, as al-Tajrid min Maqạsid al-falạsifa.
11 Istanbul edition, col. 1916
12 A somewhat garbled version of Genesis i, 27.
13 This is surely the earliest reference to Sanạ'ị in Arabic writing.
14 Pupil of al-Qushairị and teacher of al-Ghazạlḍ, d. 477/1084.
15 Famous preacher, d. 258/872.
16 D. 110/728.
17 Doubtless Aḥmad al-Ghazạlị, famous for his Sawạniḥ on mystical love, d. 517/1123.
18 Qur'ạn xxvi, 224.
19 Sc. skill in admonition and wise sayings.
20 JBBRAS, NS, XIII, 1937, 1–5.Google Scholar
21 Brockelmann, I, 199, Suppl., I, 354.
22 My pupil Mr. Gaafar informs me that another copy of this commentary is preserved in the library of the Azhar in Cairo.
23 The Cairo manuscript is undated, but looks to be not later than the ninth/fifteenth century.
24 The author seems to have been careless sometimes in his grammar. His solecisms have been left uncorrected.
25 See al-Sulamị, Tabaqạt al-Sụfiya (ed. Nụr al-Dịn Shuraiba), p. 265 for references.
26 The chapter headings are as given in CB 4142; the wording in the Cairo manuscript is occasionally slightly different.