Selected readings
16 selected Arabic excerpts, each with English and Turkish drafts; 3 volume guides and 12 glossary entries in all three languages.
Follow the biography in Volume I and the study of attributed works in Volume III. For Volume II, start with the guide to its published plan. Each reading identifies its exact Arabic source and selection.
Why the works follow the Fihrist’s order
Therefore, after critically editing the Fihrist on the basis of the manuscript authenticated by Shaykh Muhyiddin himself, we found that the best way t…
Selected excerpt · translation draftDirect and indirect sources in Osman Yahya’s catalogue
Osman Yahya based his classification on different sources, divided into direct and indirect sources. The direct sources are Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn al-Ar…
Selected excerpt · translation draftCounting titles is not counting authenticated works
Osman Yahya relied directly on Sarkis Awwad’s edition of the Fihrist and Abd al-Rahman Badawi’s edition of the Ijaza, as well as earlier research publ…
Selected excerpt · translation draftDistinguishing the Ijaza from additions by copyists
After carefully editing the Fihrist and Ijaza, as we shall explain in chapters one and four respectively, we shall find that the total derived by Osma…
Selected excerpt · translation draftThe first three sources in the attribution scheme
On the basis of the preceding discussion, we shall collect the titles of the Greatest Master’s works from six sources. The first three are reliable, a…
Selected excerpt · translation draftAn argument about the Fihrist’s attribution
Mahmud Ghurab considers attribution of this list to Shaykh Muhyiddin impossible, because important works mentioned by the Master elsewhere do not appe…
Selected excerpt · translation draftThe Qunawi manuscript and its audition record
From the manuscript list above, we find that the Fihrist manuscript in Yusuf Agha miscellany no. 7838—the same as no. 5624 in the modern numbering—is …
Selected excerpt · translation draftWhat the Fihrist says about its own scope
One of the brethren asked me to record for him on these sheets everything I had composed and produced concerning realities and mysteries, along the pa…
Selected excerpt · translation draft