Nihāyat al-Wuṣūl ilā ‘ilm al-Uṣūl
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- Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi
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- Nihāyat al-Wuṣūl ilā ‘ilm al-Uṣūl (Ṣafī al-Hindī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1246 or 1247-1315 or 1316)
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- Author
- Ṣafī al-Hindī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1246 or 1247-1315 or 1316
- صفي الدين ابو عبدالله الهندي
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- Ṣafī al-Dīn Abū ‘Abdallāh al-Hindī, 1246-1315
- Ṣafī al-Dīn Abū ‘Abdallāh Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Hindī
- صفي الدين ابو عبدالله محمد بن عبدالرحمن بن محمد الهندي
- Ṣafī al-Hindī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1246 or 1247-1315 or 1316 (authorised)
- Armawī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1246 or 1247-1315 or 1316 (variant)
- Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ṣafī al-Hindī, 1246 or 1247-1315 or 1316 (variant)
- Ṣafī al-Hindī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1246 or 7-1315 or 16 (variant)
- صفي الهندي، محمد بن عبد الرحيم (variant)
- Biographical notes
- In some sources and mss he is also given the laqab al-Urmawī (الارموي); however there is no evidence of any connection with Urūmīyah (Iran) or Iran, and most probably the laqab derives from his association with Sirāj al-Dīn al-Urmawī. His father’s name is also recorded by some sources as ‘Abd al-Raḥīm. Born in India near Delhi in 644 AH [1246 CE], he travelled to Yemen, Mecca and Egypt for study and the hajj. After his sojourn in Egypt in 671 AH [1272-1273 CE] he came to Anatolia where he spent a considerable period -according to Ibn Qāḍī Shuhbah ’s Ṭabaqat, 21 years in total, according to Çelebi (based on Subki and other Mamluk biographers) 11 years in Konya, 5 years in Sivas, and 1 year in Kayseri. al-Subkī states he was patronised by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Urmawī, author of al-Tahsil, ie. Sirāj al-Dīn al-Urmawī. He then settled in Damascus where taught in various madarasas including al-Zahiriyya, and died in 715 AH [1315 CE]. He was a specialist in Ash‘ari kalam and Shafi‘i fiqh.
- Title
- Nihāyat al-Wuṣūl ilā ‘ilm al-Uṣūl
- نهاية الوصول إلى علم الأصول
- Notes
- As far is known at present this is the only complete extant ms of the work to survive. The work is divided in two volumes
- Composed in Damascus in not before 697 [1298- CE]
- Main language of text
- Arabic
- Bibliography
- Studies
- Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Supplementband. Leiden: Brill, 1938, 143.
- Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902, 116.
- al-Subkī, . Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfi‘iyya. Baghdad: 1971, II, 534.
- Çelebi, İlyas. "Hindî, Ebu ‘Abdillah Safiyyüddin b. Abdirrahim (Abdirahman) b. Muhammed el-Hindi el-Urmevi (ö. 715/1315)." TDVIA. XVIII 1998: 66-7.
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- Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 566
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- 380+355 (2 vols) ff.
- Dimensions of folio
- width 18cm, height 26cm
- Columns
- 1
- Ruled lines
- 25
- Hand
- Copyist: ‘Alī b. Yaḥyá b. ‘Umar b. Ḥabīb, علي بن يحيى بن عمر بن حبيب
History
- Date of copy
- 13th. century