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al-Iḥrāz fī anwāʻ al-majāz : manuscript
Creator
سجاعي، أحمد بن أحمد، -1783؟
Title
al-Iḥrāz fī anwāʻ al-majāz : manuscript / Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Sujāʻī.
الإحراز في أنواع المجاز : مخطوطة / أحمد بن أحمد السجاعي.
Production
Place not identified, 19th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (26 leaves) ; 25 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from incipit (folio 2b): "... wa-sammaytuhu 'al-Iḥrāz fī anwāʻ al-majāz' ..."
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Qāla al-Imām al-ʻārif bi-Mawlāhu wa-al-nāshiq min rawḍ al-maʻārif rayyāhu, al-ātī banānuhu bi-al-bayān, wa-al-mūlī al-maʻānī fī al-tibyān, badīʻ al-maʻānī al-daqīqah, wa-maṣdar talaqqī maʻrifat al-majāz wa-al-ḥaqīqah al-bāʻithah ilayhi li-faḍlihi al-dawāʻī, Sayyidī al-Shaykh Aḥmad najl al-Sujāʻī: al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-hādī man yashāʼu ilá ṣirāṭihi al-mustaqīm, al-mubīn ḥaqīqat al-majāz ilá al-sharīʻat al-samaḥāʼ wa-al-dīn al-qawīm ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال الإمام العارف بمولاه والناشق من روض المعارف رياه، الآتي بنانه بالبيان، والمولي المعاني في التبيان، بديع المعاني الدقيقة، ومصدر تلقي معرفة المجاز والحقيقة الباعثة إليه لفضل الدواعي، سيدي الشيخ أحمد نجل السجاعي: الحمد لله الهادي من يشاء إلى صراطه المستقيم، المبين حقيقة المجاز إلى الشريعة السمحاء والدين القويم ..."
Secundo folio: wa-al-salām ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad.
بداية الورقة الثانية: والسلام على سيدنا محمد.
17 x 24.5 cm; written surface: 6.5 x 13 cm; 13 lines per page.
Binding: Unbound (in three unnumbered quires).
In beautiful and large naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; the phrases of the original poem in purple; some commentaries and corrections on the margins; catchwords.
On folio 1a: "Hādhā Sharḥ al-ʻAllāmah al-Sujāʻī ʻalá 'Manẓūmatihi' fī al-majāz, nafaʻanā Allāh bi-hi wa-biʻulūmihi. Āmīn."
على وجه الورقة 1: "هذا شرح العلامة السجاعي على 'منظومته' في المجاز، نفعنا الله به وبعلومه. آمين."
The original poem of al-Sujāʻī starts with: Ḥamdan li-Rabbī khāliqi al-ḥaqīqati // kadhā al-majāzi Munzili al-Sharīʻati. Tumma ṣalātan lil-Rasūli al-hādī // wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi al-amjādi. It ends with: Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá mā qad hadā // maʻa al-salāmi lil-Nabīyi Aḥmadā. Wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi al-aʼimmah // wa-man qafāhum min jamīʻ al-ummah.
تبدأ منظومة السجاعي بـِ: حمدًا لربي خالق الحقيقة // كذا المجاز منزل الشريعة. تم صلاةً للرسول الهادي // وآله وصحبه الأمجاد. وتنتهي بـِ: والحمد لله على ما قد هدا // مع السلام للنيّ أحمدا. وآله وصحبه الأئمة // ومن قفاهم من جميع الأمة.
Folios 24-26 are blank; text folios 1b-23b.
Colophon: "Intahá. Askananā Allāh bi-mannihi al-Ghurfah al-ʻAlīyah, wa-jamaʻa lanā bayna khayray al-Dārayn, bi-jāh Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad khayr al-barīyah, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi al-kirām, wa-ʻalá sāʼir atbāʻihim, wa-ʻalaynā maʻahum ajmaʻīn bilā inqḍāʼ. Āmīn. Tamm."
الخاتمة: "انتهى. أسكننا الله بمنه الغرفة العلية، وجمع لنا بين خيري الدارين، بجاه سيدنا ومولانا محمد خير البرية، صلى الله عليه وآل وصحبه الكرام، وعلى سائر اتباعهم، وعلينا معهم اجمعين بلا انقضاء. آمين. تم."
Translation of the colophon: "It is completed. May God, by his benevolence, make us dwell in the Lofty Room, and grant us to have the blessings of the two Abodes, by the high status of our Master and Lord Muḥammad, the best of mankind, may God pray on him, his family, his noble companions, on all their followers, and on all of us with them, without cessation. Amen. It is completed."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
"al-Iḥrāz fī anwāʻ al-majāz" (Attaining the different kinds of figurative expressions), a treatise on metaphors and rhetoric in Arabic, by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Sujāʻī (died 1783?), a prolific Shāfiʻī Islamic law scholar, from "al-Sujāʻīyah" (Egypt), hence, his name "al-Sujāʻī", who wrote on different subjects, some in verse, mostly commentaries and glosses on the works of other authors. The present manuscript is a commentary by the author on his own treatise in verse. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 19th century.
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Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2020
References
Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Sujāʻī, al-Iḥrāz fī anwāʻ al-majāz. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Sujāʻī, al-Iḥrāz fī anwāʻ al-majāz. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 19th century.
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