From Arabic syntax to the dogmatics of Islam

[Arabic grammar - Muslim theology]. [Five treatises on grammar and theology].

[Ottoman Empire, ca. 1748/49 CE =] ca. 1162 H.

8vo (113 x 180 mm). 88 ff. Arabic manuscript on polished paper. At least five contemporary hands in different scripts, black ink with important words or phrases picked out in red, with extensive marginal commentaries. Contemporary red morocco with flap, overlaid with marbled paper.

€ 2,500.00

A selection of five educational texts bound as one, clearly useful to students of theology and grammar, as seen in the extensive marginal commentaries. The texts include samples of treatises on Arabic grammar, commentaries on the Qur'an, and Muslim dogmatics. The commentaries are anonymous, but the first text is a grammatical treatise of Arabic known as the "Tasrif al-Zanjani", originally written by 'Abd al-Wahhab Ibn Ibrahim al-Zanjani (fl. 1257), with the commentaries and theological discussions following. Al-Zanjani wrote entirely on linguistic and grammatical subjects, and his works in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish cover Arabic syntax, inflection, morphology, and general grammar: a helpful first step for a student interested in studying the language of the Qur'an more deeply, which explains the intermingling of grammatical and theological material in this manuscript.

Some light exterior wear, hinges rebacked, careful paper repairs throughout. Provenance: 20th century Parisian private collection, kept in the family for several generations and dispersed in 2022.

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