Research Note

In Pursuit of the Lost Volumes of al-Maṭālib al-‘āliya

Abstract

This research introduces a copy of al-Rāzī’s work al-Maṭālib al-ʻāliya that contains epistemology,
logic, and ontology sections and an index and was not known until today (Süleymaniye Library, Ms Fatih
3145). Thus, the research correct two fundamental noted mistakes about the name and scope of al-Maṭālib
al-ʻāliya that had resulted from al-Saqqā’s edition and aims to prove that al-Maṭālib al-ʻāliya is an encyclopedic
work containing sections on logic, ontology, physics, and theology.

Keywords

Kalam Islamic philosophy Fakhr al-dīn al- Rāzī al-Maṭālib al-ʻāliya Kalam and philosophy literature