8vo. 175 pp., / 12 pp., Arabic lithographed text within border, original hard boards with a flap, rubbed, light soiling to first leaf, otherwise copy in very good condition, al-Matba’a al-Wahbiya, Cairo, 1283 A. H./ 1866.

Synopsis

Ali ibn Muhamad al-Jurjani (1339–1414), encyclopaedic writer and traditionalist theologian, was born near Astarabad and became a professor in Shiraz. When Timur plundered this city in 1387, he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death.
Of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is this work, the Ta’rifat (Definitions), which was edited for the first time by Gustavus Flügel (this work), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc.), and St. Petersburg (1897).