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Book/Printed Material Comments on the Summary of "al-Miftāh".

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Title

  • Comments on the Summary of "al-Miftāh".

Summary

  • This early 19th-century work by Qara Hafiz Efendi on Arabic rhetoric is a commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ (The summary of al-Miftāḥ) by Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Qazwini (1267 or 1268-1338), better known as al-Khatib al-Qazwini (the Preacher al-Qazwini). Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ was itself a commentary on Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm (The key to knowledge), by Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr al-Sakkaki (born 1160). Al-Qazwini was a student of al-Sakkaki, and both men were important scholars of Arabic rhetoric. Efendi's work also contains excerpts from another work, a dictionary of language usage, figurative speech, and simile by Ayyub Ibn Musa al-Kaffawi. The manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that reflect the development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th century. The manuscript is item 365 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).

Names

  • Efendi, Qara Hafiz Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1750 to 1850]

Headings

  • -  Turkey
  • -  1750 to 1850
  • -  Arabic language
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Rhetoric

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 53 folios ; 22 x 16 centimeters ; black and red ink ; semileather hardcover.
  • -  Original resource at: University Library in Bratislava.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Bašagic's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667156

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Efendi, Qara Hafiz Author. Comments on the Summary of "al-Miftāh". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1850, 1750] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667156/.

APA citation style:

Efendi, Q. H. A. (1750) Comments on the Summary of "al-Miftāh". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1850] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667156/.

MLA citation style:

Efendi, Qara Hafiz Author. Comments on the Summary of "al-Miftāh". [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1850, 1750] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667156/>.