AL-HALABI, Abū Bakr ‘Abd al-Wahhāb b. Muhammad b. Husayni; AL-HANNAM, Muhammad. [with] AL-ABĪŪERDI, Husam al-Dīn Hassan b. ‘Alī.

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Two remarkably well-preserved, uncommon manuscript commentaries on Arabic logic, produced in the 15th century at the famous madrasah Halifet (Gazi) in Amasya, Turkey, the greatest centre for learning in Anatolia. A fine example of the complex and fascinating tradition of the study of logic in the Arabic-speaking world. We have traced only one other ms copy of the second work, formerly at the Royal Library in Berlin (Ahlwardt, p.412, n.27), while copies of the first are absent from major catalogues. Both authors and works are mentioned in Kâtip Çelebi’s (d.1658) bibliographical encyclopedia ‘Kashf al-Zunun’, under works descending from al-Abhāri’s logical treatise ‘Isagoge’. The paper of both manuscripts displays at times chainlines in groups of three, typically found in Syria, Egypt, and Palestine in the 15th century. The colophon of the second work states that it was completed on Friday in the month of Shab’an in 867AH, at the madrasa of Helifat (Gezi), in Amasya, Turkiye, by the scribe Salmān b. Tawirād(?) b. Hamza. The layout, style, and marginal annotations suggest these were indeed textbooks for students of Islamic law, who trained in logic and rhetoric. The title of the first work exemplifies the complex, interlinked tradition of glosses and commentaries on logic in the Islamic world. Little is known of Abu Bakr ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Halabi, sometimes said to have flourished in the 13th century, other times identified (as in our case) with ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Halabi (d.875 AH

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