Small 8vo. 160 pp., Arabic text, browned paper, few ink comments in margins, minor cut to title page without loss, last page torn without loss, new black hard back binding, new end papers, Matba’at al-Jawaib, Qustantiniyyah, 1299 A. H. / 1881.

Synopsis

‘Abd al-Rahman al-Bastami (d. 1454) was born in Antioch, studied in Cairo and settled in Bursa, where he remained until the end of his life. His works -all in Arabic – cover a wide range of subjects. Some relate to the classification of the sciences. Most of his works are not printed. It seems the only work of al-Basṭāmī that has been printed appears to be Manāhej al-tawassol fī mabāhej al-tarassol, a work of adab containing forty-six anecdotes (laṭāʾef), each with an edifying moral. It was published in Cairo in 1299/1882 in the margins of Ṣalāḥ-al-Dīn Ṣafadī’s Janān al-jenās. Finally, al-Basṭāmī has some works of necrology and chronology.