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The Attribution of an Arabic Commentary on Nasir al-Din al-Tusi’s Tahrir al-Majisti to Shams al-Din al-Samarqandı

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In this paper, I thoroughly examine the anonymous commentary found in Theology Library
(Tehran University) MS 678 on Tūsī’s Tahrīr al-Majistī, which the copyist attributed to Samarqandī in the
colophon. I compare its contents and some references to Samarqandī’s Sharh Tahrīr al-Majistī, including
a bibliographical note in Hājjī Khalīfa’s Kashf al-¯unūn, an owner’s note on the front page of Carullah MS
1485 (a manuscript of Nīsābūrī’s Sharh Tahrīr al-Majistī), and Nīsābūrī’s own marginal note recording the
name Samarqandī in the autograph of his Sharh Tahrīr al-Majistī. In this way, I establish Faculty of Theology
Library MS 678 to be a manuscript of Samarqandī’s Sharh Tahrīr al-Majistī. This identification in turn
reveals that Nīsābūrī, in his Sharh Tahrīr al-Majistī, called Samarqandī “an eminent scholar” and quoted
Samarqandī’s Sharh Tahrīr al-Majistī several times. Therefore, one can conclude Samarqandī’s Sharh Tahrīr
al-Majistī has been very influential on Nīsābūrī when he composed his Sharh Tahrīr al-Majistī.

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Sharh Tahrīr al-Majistī Tahrīr al-Majistī NiÛām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī Almagest astronomy

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Taro Mimura, Assoc. Prof., Tokyo University
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.12658/Nazariyat.8.2. M0174en
Year: 2022 (November) / Volume: 8 / Issue: 2
Page: 145-166
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