Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Kinga Dévényi is curator of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and reader in Arabic and Islamic studies at Corvinus University of Budapest. She has published widely on various aspects of Arabic linguistics and Islamic civilisation. Munif Abdul-Fattah, Ph.D. (2013), Eötvös Loránd University (Faculty of Humanities), is a lecturer in the Organisation of Muslims in Hungary. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Islam, including The Characteristic Economic Rules of Muslim Communities (JATEpress, 2014).Katalin Fiedler (b. 1984) earned her MA in Arabic Studies from Eötvös Loránd University, where she also wrote her PhD thesis on the function of examples in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb. Her latest publication is Iyyāka wa-l-mas’ala z-zunbūriyya: On a Widely Debated Mediaeval Grammatical Issue (The Arabist, 2012).

• Foreword List of Titles in Collected Works List of Illustrations Transliteration Table Introduction The Academy and Its Library The Oriental Collection The Arabic Manuscripts Some Statistics Content Dated Works Highlights Autographs On Ownership The History of Cataloguing The Organization of the Catalogue Arrangement The Entries The Koran / al-Qurʾān al-karīm Tradition / Ḥadīṯ Qurʾānic Sciences / ʿUlūm al-qurʾān Theology / ʿIlm al-ʿaqāʾid Jurisprudence / Fiqh 1 ʿIlm al-uṣūl 1.1 The Muḫtaṣar al-Muntahā fī l-uṣūl of Ibn al-Ḥāǧib(570–646/1174–1249) and Its Commentaries 1.2 Miscellaneous Tracts 2 ʿIlm al-furūʿ 2.1 Ḥanafī Compendia 2.1.1 The Muḫtaṣar of al-Qudūrī (362–428/972–1037) and Its Commentaries 2.1.2 Commentaries on the Ġurar al-aḥkām of Molla Ḫusraw (d. 885/1480) 2.1.3 The Multaqā l-abḥur of al-Ḥalabī (d. 956/1549) and Its Commentaries 2.1.4 Miscellaneous Ḥanafī Tracts 2.2 Šāfiʿī Compendia 2.3 Ḥanbalī and Mālikī Compendia 2.4 Aḥkām al-ṣalāt 2.5 Islamic Law of Inheritence / ʿilm al-farāʾiḍ Mysticism / Taṣawwuf 1 Ṣūfī Literature 2 Prayer Books 3 Fortune Telling, Geomancy / Fālnāma, ʿIlm al-raml History / Tārīḫ Literature / Adab Language Sciences 1 Syntax / Naḥw 1.1 al-ʿAwāmil al-miʾa of al-Ǧurǧānī (d. 471/1078) and Its Commentaries 1.2 al-Miṣbāḥ fī ʿilm al-naḥw of al-Muṭarrizī (538–610/1144–1213) and Its Commentaries 1.3 The Kāfiya of Ibn al-Ḥāǧib (d. 646/1249) and Its Commentaries 1.4 The Alfīya of Ibn Mālik (d. 672/1274) and Its Commentaries 1.5 Works by al-Birkawī (d. 981/1573) and Their Commentaries 1.6 Miscellaneous Works 2 Morphology / ʿIlm al-ṣarf 2.1 The Marāḥ al-arwāḥ of Ibn Masʿūd (7th/13th c.) 2.2 The Taṣrīf of al-Zanǧānī (d. 655/1257) and Its Commentaries 2.3 al-Maqṣūd fī l-ṣarf and Its Commentaries 2.4 Miscellaneous Treatises 3 Lexicography / ʿIlm al-luġa 4 Rhetoric / Balāġa Philosophy / Falsafa Logic / Manṭiq 1 The Īsāġūǧī of al-Abharī (d. 663/1265) and Its Commentaries 2 al-Risāla al-Šamsīya by al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī (d. 675/1276) and Its Commentaries 3 Commentaries on Tahḏīb al-manṭiq wa-l-kalām of al-Taftāzānī (d. 793/1390) 4 Disputation / ʿIlm al-munāẓara wa-ādāb al-baḥṯ Miscellanea 1 Encyclopaedia / al-Maʿāǧim al-ǧāmiʿa 2 Education / Tarbiya 3 Classification of Sciences / Tartīb al-ʿulūm 4 Horsemanship / Furūsīya 5 Mathematics / Riyāḍīyāt Christian Books Bibliography Index of Titles Index of Authors Index of Scribes Index of Owners Index of Dated Manuscripts Index of Place Names Index of Call Numbers