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Book II

الرِّسالَةُ الشَّمْسِيَّة

al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya

al-Kātibī · d. 675/1276

Al-Kātibī’s compact handbook of the whole of logic, read with Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary and al-Jurjānī’s gloss in the higher classes of the Ottoman, Iranian and Indian madrasas.

Full title
al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya fī al-qawāʿid al-manṭiqiyya
Author
al-Kātibī
Died
675/1276

Articles

مَقالات

  1. 1Al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya: the bookAl-Risāla al-Shamsiyya fī al-qawāʿid al-manṭiqiyya, ‘the treatise for Shams al-Dīn on the rules of logic’, is a compact handbook written by …
  2. 2The author: Najm al-Dīn al-KātibīNajm al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Kātibī al-Qazwīnī (600–675/1204–1277), also called Dabīrān, was a pupil of al-Abharī, a colleague of Naṣīr …
  3. 3Commentaries and glossesFew books have attracted as many commentaries as the Shamsiyya. This article follows the tradition from al-Ḥillī’s early commentary through …
  4. 4The Shamsiyya in the madrasa: teaching, translations and editionsFrom the fourteenth century to the present the Shamsiyya, usually with Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary, has been the second stage of logic …

Commentaries

الشُّرُوح والحَواشِي

The commentaries most read in the madrasas, with the glosses written on them.

شرح · 675/1277

al-Kātibī

Sharḥ al-mawāḍiʿ al-mushkila min al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya

حاشیه: al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī, Ibn Mubārakshāh, Qāḍī Mīr

شرح · 726/1325

al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī

al-Qawāʿid al-jaliyya fī sharḥ al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya

شرح · 766/1365

Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī

Taḥrīr al-qawāʿid al-manṭiqiyya fī sharḥ al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya (Sharḥ al-Shamsiyya, al-Quṭbī)

حاشیه: al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī, Mīr Ṣadr al-Dīn

شرح · 792/1390

al-Taftāzānī

Sharḥ al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya (al-Saʿdiyya)

حاشیه: al-Siyālkūtī

شرح · 864/1459

al-Maḥallī

Sharḥ al-Shamsiyya (unfinished)

شرح · 875/1470

Muṣannifak

Sharḥ al-Shamsiyya (in Persian)

شرح · 909/1503–4

Qāḍī Mīr

Sharḥ al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya

شرح · 1045/1635–36

al-Busnawī

Sharḥ al-Shamsiyya

Catalogue

الفِهْرِس

Everything written on this book that we could trace, with editions and sources.

Open the catalogue (90)
Commentaries (sharḥ)26
Glosses (ḥāshiya)43
Notes, verse forms and other works8
Translations5
Modern studies8

Scholars

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