8vo. 4 pp., Contents, 308 pp., Arabic text within borders with printed notes in margins, modern hard back binding, occasional spotting, heaving foxing to first and last 2 leaves, Dar al-Tiba’a al-Amira Othman Hilmi, Istanbul, 1894.

Synopsis

The author’s works intended as systematic handbooks for teaching in madrassas, have no claim to originality, but they were well-organized and had profited from the long scholarly tradition which had survived the Mongol invasion. Their popularity is evident from the great number of commentaries. Most have not yet been intensively studied; the best bibliographical surveys are those carried out by C. Brockelmann.
Another works in the linguistic field written by the author was Al-Madkhal fi ʿIlm al-Ma’ani wa-al-Bayan wa-al-Bada’e and Al-Resala al-Ważʿīya al-ʿAżodīya, a short treatise with numerous commentaries, on ʿIlm al-Ważʿ, the reflection about the relation between expression and meaning, especially with regard to technical terms.