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
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 3The commentariesWithin about two hundred years Sullam al-ʿulūm attracted more than a hundred Indian commentaries and glosses. Three of them, by Qāḍī …
- 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.
комментарий · 1160/1747
Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (on the assents)
глосса: Dildār ʿAlī, Turāb ʿAlī al-Laknawī, Barakat Allāh
комментарий · 1162/1749
Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (‘Qāḍī Mubārak’, ‘al-Qāḍī’)
глосса: Qāḍī Mubārak, Ḥāfiẓ Darāz, Turāb ʿAlī al-Laknawī
комментарий · 1199/1784
Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (‘Mullā Ḥasan’)
глосса: Turāb ʿAlī al-Laknawī, Barakat Allāh
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 works | 9 |
| Translations | 1 |
| Modern studies | 10 |
Scholars
الأَعْلام
Mīr Dāmād · 1041/1631Mīr Zāhid · 1101/1689–90Mullā Quṭb al-Dīn Sihālawī · 1103/1692Mullā Fīrūz · 1118/1707–1124al-Bihārī · 1119/1707Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shamsābādī · 1121/1709Ḥāfiẓ Amān Allāh al-Banārasī · 1133/1721Ḥamd Allāh · 1160/1747Mullā Niẓām al-Dīn · 1161/1748Qāḍī Mubārak · 1162/1749Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sihālawī · 1167/1754Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fatiḥpūrī · 1175/1761Mullā Ḥasan · 1199/1784Baḥr al-ʿUlūm · 1225/1810Mullā Mubīn · 1225/1810Dildār ʿAlī · 1235/1820Ḥāfiẓ Darāz · 1263/1847Turāb ʿAlī al-Laknawī · 1281/1864ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Laknawī · 1304/1886Barakat Allāh · 1343/1925Ibrāhīm Balyāwī · 1387/1967Muftī Saʿīd Aḥmad Pālanpūrī · 19 May 2020Asad Q. AhmedMuḥammad ʿAlī al-Jawnpūrī · young