Khalid Alavi, Muhammad Siddique

2019-02-15T14:32:06Z

2019-02-15T14:32:06Z

1980

The genre of Islamic devotional literature known as the Arba'in is one of the major vehicles for the dissemination of knowledge of the traditions of the Prophet among the Muslim community. After the first four centuries of Islam, when the major collections and classifications had been completed, the efforts of the scholars were directed to the compilation of such anthologies and to the work of commentary.

This thesis presents a critical edition of the Arabic commentary of al-Lárì (d. 979/1571) on the Arba'in of an- Nawawi (d. 676/1277). This Arba'In is universally held to be the best of its genre, and the commentary which forms the present edition was to achieve the greatest popularity among the students of the Arba'in an-Nawa l. As an introduction to the edition there is given an account of the lives of al-Lá.rì and an-Nawawi together with a list of all other known works by them and a critical appraisal of their total contribution to scholarship. This thesis offers a brief survey of all Arba'ins written up to the time of an-Nawawì and the commentaries thereon, written up to the time of al-Lárì.

The text is based on six MSS and variant readings are given, corrections being made on the bases of these readings and by reference to the sources of the commentary. Notes and indices follow the text in the appendices.

http://hdl.handle.net/1842/34866

The University of Edinburgh

Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2019 Block 22

Al-Lārī's commentary to the Arbaʻīn An-Nawawī : a critical edition with introduction

Thesis or Dissertation

Doctoral

PhD Doctor of Philosophy