Moroccan logician, a student of al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī, who wrote the first commentary on al-Sanūsī’s logic compendium after the author’s own and a commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam (Meknes 1119/1707).
Life
Brockelmann, citing al-Qādirī’s Nashr al-mathānī, gives his name as Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb al-Dilāʾī al-Wallālī and the date of his death as 1128/1716; he is usually called simply Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb al-Wallālī. The TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi lists him among the students of the great Moroccan scholar al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī, himself a commentator on al-Sanūsī’s .
His main work in is Lawāmiʿ al-naẓar fī taḥqīq maʿānī al-Mukhtaṣar, a on the Mukhtaṣar fī l-manṭiq of Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d. 895/1490). In the description of his critical edition (Brill, 2022), Ibrahim Safri calls al-Wallālī the first commentator on al-Sanūsī’s compendium after the author’s own commentary and notes that his contemporaries regarded him as a master of the rational sciences on the strength of his writings on logic and philosophical theology; Safri uses the work to trace the indirect influence of Ibn Sīnā on logic in the Maghrib in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
His on al-Akhḍarī’s verse primer, al-Qawl al-musallam fī taḥqīq maʿānī al-Sullam, was written, according to Brockelmann, in Meknes in 1119/1707; manuscripts are in London, Algiers and Rabat. It is one of the seven works printed together in the modern compilation Majmūʿ al-Sullam al-murawnaq, beside the commentaries of al-Damanhūrī, al-Quwaysinī, al-Akhḍarī himself and Saʿīd Qaddūra.
Uncertain or disputed
- Form of the name: Brockelmann’s full form with the nisba al-Dilāʾī; the TDV and the modern edition call him Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb al-Wallālī. His year of birth is not given in the sources consulted.
- His studies with al-Yūsī are known here only from the TDV’s list of al-Yūsī’s students; Safri’s study of his life has not been consulted.
Works
- Lawāmiʿ al-naẓar fī taḥqīq maʿānī al-Mukhtaṣar لَوَامِعُ النَّظَرِ فِي تَحْقِيقِ مَعَانِي المُخْتَصَرِ — on al-SanūsīCommentary on al-Sanūsī’s Mukhtaṣar fī l-manṭiq; manuscripts in Rabat and Tlemcen (GAL S II 355–356); critical edition and study by Ibrahim Safri, Leiden: Brill, 2022 (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science 120).commentary
- al-Qawl al-musallam fī taḥqīq maʿānī al-Sullam القَوْلُ المُسَلَّمُ فِي تَحْقِيقِ مَعَانِي السُّلَّمِ — on al-Sullam al-munawraqCommentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam, written in Meknes in 1119/1707 (GAL S II 705); printed in Majmūʿ al-Sullam al-murawnaq.commentary
Reception
With Saʿīd Qaddūra’s , his is one of the two early Maghribī commentaries on the Sullam that are still printed today in the collected volume of seven works on the poem.
Sources (4)
- Brockelmann, GAL Supplement II (1938), pp. 355–356 and 705 (archive.org scan)
- Lehmanns: Aḥmad al-Wallālī’s Commentary on al-Sanūsī’s Compendium of Logic, ed. Ibrahim Safri (Brill, 2022), publisher’s description
- Majmūʿ al-Sullam al-murawnaq fī ʿilm al-manṭiq (seven works), archive.org
- Tuncay Başoğlu, ‘Yûsî’, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (2013)