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Zubdat al-Kalām li-‘iṣmat al-anām (Ṣafī al-Hindī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1246 or 1247-1315 or 1316)

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

Zubdat al-Kalām li-‘iṣmat al-anām

زبدة الكلام لعصمة الانام

Notes

Composed in not after 708 [-1308 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.

Physical Description

Number of folios

403 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 18.5cm, height 26cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

21

Hand

Copyist: Fāḍil b. Sulaymān b. Mubārak , فاضل بن سليمان بن مبارك

History

Date of copy

14th. century