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Book/Printed Material Commentary by the Learned Shaykh al-Fanari on Saʻd al-Din al-Taftazani's "Commentary on 'al-Miftāḥ'".

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Title

  • Commentary by the Learned Shaykh al-Fanari on Saʻd al-Din al-Taftazani's "Commentary on 'al-Miftāḥ'".

Summary

  • Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm (The key to the sciences) by Persian polymath Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr al-Sakkaki (1160-circa 1228) is a monumental work comprising 12 sciences of the Arabic language. Generally divided into three areas (morphology, syntax, and rhetoric), al-Miftaḥ (or the Key, for short) became the subject of numerous commentaries. One of the main commentators on it was another Persian polymath by the name of Masʻud ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazani (1322-circa 1389), who wrote two commentaries. The longer one of the two gained great reception in its own right, and became known among scholars as al-Muṭawwal (The long commentary). As is the case with many pioneering works in the Arabic language, that long commentary itself became the subject of a new commentary (or supercommentary), which is preserved in this manuscript by Hasan ibn Muhammad Shah al-Fanari (1436 or 1437-1481 or 1482). Al-Fanari studied at the Aleppo school of Edirne (in present-day Turkey) and later moved to Egypt, before returning to Anatolia, where he sought the patronage of Ottoman sultans Muhammad Khan II and Bayezid II. This manuscript on rhetoric is entitled Hāshiyat al-shaykh al-ʻallāmah al-Fanārī ʻalá sharḥ talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ li Saʻd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (Commentary by the learned shaykh al-Fanari on Saʻd al-Din al-Taftazani's "Commentary on al-Miftāḥ").

Names

  • Fanārī, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Shāh, 1436 or 1437-1481 or 1482 Author.
  • Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338 Associated Name.
  • Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, flourished around 1160 Associated Name.
  • Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389? Associated Name.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1450 to 1482]

Headings

  • -  Egypt
  • -  Syrian Arab Republic
  • -  Turkey
  • -  1450 to 1482
  • -  Arabic language
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Grammar, Comparative and general
  • -  Morphology (Linguistics)
  • -  Rhetoric

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 159 pages ; 27 x 19 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

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  • 2021667340

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Chicago citation style:

Fanārī, Ḥasan Ibn Muḥammad Shāh, 1436 Or Or 1482 Author, Jalāl Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Al-Raḥmān Qazwīnī, Yūsuf Ibn Abī Bakr Sakkākī, and MasʻŪd Ibn ʻUmar Taftāzānī. Commentary by the Learned Shaykh al-Fanari on Saʻd al-Din al-Taftazani's "Commentary on 'al-Miftāḥ'". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1482, 1450] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667340/.

APA citation style:

Fanārī, Ḥ. I. M. S., Qazwīnī, J. A. M. I. ʻ. A., Sakkākī, Y. I. A. B. & Taftāzānī, M. I. ʻ. (1450) Commentary by the Learned Shaykh al-Fanari on Saʻd al-Din al-Taftazani's "Commentary on 'al-Miftāḥ'". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1482] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667340/.

MLA citation style:

Fanārī, Ḥasan Ibn Muḥammad Shāh, 1436 Or Or 1482 Author, et al. Commentary by the Learned Shaykh al-Fanari on Saʻd al-Din al-Taftazani's "Commentary on 'al-Miftāḥ'". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1482, 1450] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667340/>.