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 516

Place of origin

Unknown place of origin

Date

19 century

Language

Arabic

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Western paper (watermark), natural buff, varying thickness (thin and regular), one size, glossy.

Physical extent

165 ff.

Hands

Graceful Naskh, one hand, regular hand; annotated (Nastaʿalīq and Naskh); comment-text book. Bunābī, Muḥammad ibn Karbalāyī Allāh Yār بنابی، محمد ابن کربلایی الله یار

Decoration

Rubricated titles.

Acquisition

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

Subject

Arabic language--Syntax--Early works to 1800

Arabic language--Syntax