al-Tirmiḏī’s Kitāb al-Ǧumal : A Comparative Analysis of the Text’s Two Extant Manuscripts
(2022)- Abstract
- This thesis presents a collation of two extant handwritings of the text Kitāb al-Ǧumal, a mystical treatise by the ninth century Sufi thinker Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Tirmiḏī, also known al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmiḏī. The two handwritings are: (1) a manuscript from the Arabic collection at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, comprising two and a half folios of relatively difficult to read, dense and largely undotted handwriting; and (2) a six and a half folio manuscript, found at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, of superior overall quality albeit apparently lesser known in the secondary literature.
Taking the Manchester manuscript as its base, the thesis has three principle aims: (1) compare the two... (More) - This thesis presents a collation of two extant handwritings of the text Kitāb al-Ǧumal, a mystical treatise by the ninth century Sufi thinker Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Tirmiḏī, also known al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmiḏī. The two handwritings are: (1) a manuscript from the Arabic collection at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, comprising two and a half folios of relatively difficult to read, dense and largely undotted handwriting; and (2) a six and a half folio manuscript, found at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, of superior overall quality albeit apparently lesser known in the secondary literature.
Taking the Manchester manuscript as its base, the thesis has three principle aims: (1) compare the two manuscripts and noting differences between them; (2) analyze the differences and see if there are identifiable patterns among the variants; (3) investigate if there are sections in Kitāb al-Ǧumal that can be found in other works (principally the Quran and hadith collections).
The first part of the analysis presents a detailed table of variants. The second part then examines textual parallels between Kitāb al-Ǧumal and a wide body of secondary textual witnesses and finds Kitāb al-Ǧumal to exhibit references to the Quran and hadith collections that vary from two or three lines per folio to up to 70% on some folios. Finally, a discussion of patterns among the variants found in the analysis demonstrates that the two manuscripts are relatively congruent and only exhibit a limited number of substantive variants that exceed a nominal variability. (Less)
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- Arndt, Dennis LU
- supervisor
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- Lena Ambjörn LU
- publishing date
- 2022-09
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- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- al-Ḥ akīm al-Tirmiḏī, Kitāb al-Ǧumal, Kitāb al-Ǧumal al-Lāzim maʿrifatuhā, manuscript collation, Arabic manuscripts
- pages
- 60 pages
- publisher
- Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
- language
- English
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- 9119f176-7228-40ab-9a53-8c838b8aad47
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abstract = {{This thesis presents a collation of two extant handwritings of the text Kitāb al-Ǧumal, a mystical treatise by the ninth century Sufi thinker Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Tirmiḏī, also known al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmiḏī. The two handwritings are: (1) a manuscript from the Arabic collection at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, comprising two and a half folios of relatively difficult to read, dense and largely undotted handwriting; and (2) a six and a half folio manuscript, found at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, of superior overall quality albeit apparently lesser known in the secondary literature. <br/><br/>Taking the Manchester manuscript as its base, the thesis has three principle aims: (1) compare the two manuscripts and noting differences between them; (2) analyze the differences and see if there are identifiable patterns among the variants; (3) investigate if there are sections in Kitāb al-Ǧumal that can be found in other works (principally the Quran and hadith collections). <br/><br/>The first part of the analysis presents a detailed table of variants. The second part then examines textual parallels between Kitāb al-Ǧumal and a wide body of secondary textual witnesses and finds Kitāb al-Ǧumal to exhibit references to the Quran and hadith collections that vary from two or three lines per folio to up to 70% on some folios. Finally, a discussion of patterns among the variants found in the analysis demonstrates that the two manuscripts are relatively congruent and only exhibit a limited number of substantive variants that exceed a nominal variability.}},
author = {{Arndt, Dennis}},
keywords = {{al-Ḥ akīm al-Tirmiḏī; Kitāb al-Ǧumal; Kitāb al-Ǧumal al-Lāzim maʿrifatuhā; manuscript collation; Arabic manuscripts}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University}},
title = {{al-Tirmiḏī’s Kitāb al-Ǧumal : A Comparative Analysis of the Text’s Two Extant Manuscripts}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/229273616/MA_Arndt_2022_final.pdf}},
year = {{2022}},
}