Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʾsīs شرح أشكال التأسيس Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad قاضي زاده، موسى بن محمد

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The record is made up of Ff. 2v-41r. It was created in 1104. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī's (قاضي زاده الرومي; d. after 1440) commentary on the Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (أشكال التأسيس) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (شمس الدين محمد بن أشرف الحسيني السمرقندي, d. 1302).

A title line added by a later hand at the head of f. 2v misattributes the text to Qāḍīzāde al-Rūmī's patron the sultan Ulugh Beg (ألغ بك, d. 1449).

The text contains numerous diagrams.

Begins (f. 2v, lines 4-8):

الحمد لله الذي خلق كل شيء بقدر وقدر له ما يليق من أشكال

وصور والصلوة على من ثم بمقدمه رسم دائرة الرسالة والتشريع

وحق بمجيئه أمر التوحيد المزهق لا باطيل الشريك وتماثيل التثليث

والتربيع وعلى آله وأصحابه أضلاع زاوية النبوة وأعمده قاعدة

المروة والفتوة ...

Ends (ff. 40v, line 16-41r, line 3):

... وذلك ما أردنا

وهذه الأشكال الخمسة الأخيرة

من ثانية كتاب الأصول

لأقليدس وليكن هذا

آخر الكلام والحمد لله على الاتمام

والصلوة على نبيه محمد وآله

الكرام ...

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 41r, lines 3-4):

... تمت (!) الكتاب بعون الملك

الوهاب

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Ff. 2v-41r
Written in
Arabic in Arabic script
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Manuscript item

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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Unrestricted

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Add MS 7471, ff 2v-41r

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1104 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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Finding aids

Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 388, p. 186

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Translation and study of text commented upon:

  • De Young, Gregg, 'The Ashkāl al-Ta’sīs of al-Samarqandī: A Translation and Study', Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 14 (2001) 57-117

Studies:

  • Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th - 19th c.) , (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003) no. 808, pp. 272-74
  • Ragep, F. Jamil, 'Qāḍīzāde al-Rūmī: Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Rūmī' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 942

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Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʾsīs شرح أشكال التأسيس Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad قاضي زاده، موسى بن محمد, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 7471, ff 2v-41r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100047232289.0x000001> [accessed 19 April 2024]

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