This is a famous commentary on Alfīyah of Ibn Malik on Arabic syntax. Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭāʾī al-Jīlānī known as Ibn Mālik composed a work including 1,000 couplets called 'Arjūzah' on Arabic syntax. This 1000-couplet composition in syntax is known as Alfīyah of Ibn Mālik. Numerous commentaries and annotations have been written on this work, that are listed in Kashf al-Ẓunūn. This work has always been a textbook used in Iranian religious schools and published several times in Iran and outside Iran. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Title

This is a famous commentary on Alfīyah of Ibn Malik on Arabic syntax. Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭāʾī al-Jīlānī known as Ibn Mālik composed a work including 1,000 couplets called 'Arjūzah' on Arabic syntax. This 1000-couplet composition in syntax is known as Alfīyah of Ibn Mālik. Numerous commentaries and annotations have been written on this work, that are listed in Kashf al-Ẓunūn. This work has always been a textbook used in Iranian religious schools and published several times in Iran and outside Iran. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin

Shelfmark

Wadh.Minasian 135

Place of origin

Unknown place of origin

Date

1806

Language

Arabic

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Western paper (watermark), natural buff, varying thickness (thin, regular and thick), one size, glossy. Folios damaged by water and smeared by oil.

Physical extent

2+88 ff.

Hands

Graceful cursive Naskh, several hands, regular hand; annotated (Nastaʿalīq in Persian). Anonymous First and second folios are newly written.

Decoration

Rubricated titles; rubricated line above Alfīyah excerpts.

Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Subject

Arabic language--Syntax--Early works to 1800

Arabic language--Syntax