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سُلَّمُ العُلُوم

Sullam al-ʿulūm

Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī · d. 1119/1707

Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī’s demanding handbook, the summit of logic in the Dars-i Niẓāmī, read through a whole tradition of commentaries.

Full title
Sullam al-ʿulūm
Author
Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī
Died
1119/1707

Articles

مَقالات

  1. 1Sullam al-ʿulūm: the bookSullam al-ʿulūm (‘the ladder of the sciences’) is a short, very dense Arabic handbook of logic written in Mughal India before 1109/1698 by …
  2. 2Muḥibb Allāh al-BihārīMuḥibb Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Shakūr al-Bihārī (d. 1119/1707) was a Ḥanafī jurist and logician from Bihar who served the Mughal emperors as a …
  3. 3The commentariesWithin about two hundred years Sullam al-ʿulūm attracted more than a hundred Indian commentaries and glosses. Three of them, by Qāḍī …
  4. 4The Sullam today: print, teaching and scholarshipFrom the mid-nineteenth century the Sullam and its commentaries were lithographed in Kanpur, Lucknow, Delhi and Lahore, and Deobandi …

Commentaries

الشُّرُوح والحَواشِي

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

commentaar · 1118/1707–1124

Mullā Fīrūz

al-Sirāj al-wahhāj (Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm)

commentaar · 1160/1747

Ḥamd Allāh

Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (on the assents)

glosse: Dildār ʿAlī, Turāb ʿAlī al-Laknawī, Barakat Allāh

commentaar · 1162/1749

Qāḍī Mubārak

Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (‘Qāḍī Mubārak’, ‘al-Qāḍī’)

glosse: Qāḍī Mubārak, Ḥāfiẓ Darāz, Turāb ʿAlī al-Laknawī

commentaar · 1167/1754

Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sihālawī

Suddat al-ʿulūm sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm

commentaar · 1175/1761

Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fatiḥpūrī

Commentary on difficult passages of Sullam al-ʿulūm

commentaar · 1199/1784

Mullā Ḥasan

Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (‘Mullā Ḥasan’)

glosse: Turāb ʿAlī al-Laknawī, Barakat Allāh

commentaar · 1225/1810

Baḥr al-ʿUlūm

Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (‘Sullam Baḥr al-ʿUlūm’)

glosse: Baḥr al-ʿUlūm

commentaar · 1225/1810

Mullā Mubīn

Mirʾāt al-shurūḥ

Catalogue

الفِهْرِس

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

Open the catalogue (87)
Commentaries (sharḥ)38
Glosses (ḥāshiya)29
Notes, verse forms and other works9
Translations1
Modern studies10

Scholars

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