Chrestomathia Baidawiana : the commentary of el-Baidawai on Sura III

Al-Baidawi 'Abd Allah Ibn 'Umar, D. S. (David Samuel) Margoliouth

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(MESTOMTHIA BAIDiWIA^A
THE COMMENTARY OF EL-BAIDAWI ON SURA III
TRANSLATED EXPLAINEDAND
FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS OF ARABIC
BY
D. MARGOLIOUTH , M. A.S.
THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDLAUDIAN PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN
,
SOCIETE ASIATIQUE AND THEMEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY , THE ,
GESELLSCHAFT.DEUTSCHE MORGENLAENDISCHE
LONDON
LUZAC & Co.
OFFICEPUBLISHERS TO THE INDIA
46 Great Russell Street
4894.To Oh. RIEU Esq. Ph.D. etc. etc.
THIS LITTLE WORK
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.PREFACE.
El-Baidawi's Commentary on the Qur'an has been printed
at Leipsic, 1846 (edited H. L. Fleischer),by at Boulak,
1263 A.H. (on the margin of Shaykh Zadeh's gloss),
marginand 1283 A.H. (on the of El-Khafaji's gloss) , and
Constantinople, 1303 A.H. (with the commentary of the
ndand lithographedJalalain on the margin) ; at Lucknow (2
edition 1282 A.H.), and Constantinople (1300 A.H. ; on the
l
margin of the Qur'an) . Of these editions the most easily
procurable is the small edition of 1303, at about issued£ 1,
simultaneously in Cairo and Constantinople. As however
misprints collation of it with the carefulit teems with , a
recension of H. L. Fleischer has been appended to this
studentChrestomathy , from which the will do well before
he commences the study of Sura III to correct his copy.
Sura II has translatedPart of the commentary on been
into French and explained by S. de Sacy in his Anthologie
commentary XGrammaticale ; the whole of the on Sura
edited, but without explanation, in Henzius' Frag-was
menta Arabica (Dorpat , 1832). Fragments of it are rende-
red into English in Hughes's Dictionary Islam and otherof
works by scholars.
This list is not intended to be exhaustive.1)PREFACE.Y!
in this Chrestomathyoffered to studentsThe translation
works;based on the followingis
glosses by El-Baidawi on hisSupercommentaries. SomeA.
and owing to itsoccasionally quoted;commentary are
great number of super-popularity, it acquired agreat
the biblio-of whom lists are given bycommentators,
Ahlwardt in his CatalogueHajji Khalfah and bygrapher
Library of theLibrary at Berlin. Theof the University
Library at Cairo are alsoOffice and the KhedivialIndia
published glossesliterature. The following threerich in this
present work;been used for thehave
who died ingloss of ShihaJb el-din El-Khafdjl,1. The
held the office of sl^ai!in 1069 A.H. HeEgypt ^^j
the bjoscholars by his commentary onand is known to
and his literary(published at Constantinople) ,of Hariri
(printed repeatedly at Cairo), atcalled slsWl wW.history
Hisgives a short autobiography.end of which hethe
^oLaJI is compilation, em-Baidawi called JCjLc agloss on
the earlier glosses and enrichedthe contents ofbodying
disquisitions by thegrammatical and rhetoricalby learned
fol.It occupies 8 volumesauthor.
(Mohammed b. MuslihShayJch Zadeh2. The gloss of
died 951 A.H. This wasMustafa El-Kuhi) whoel din
in A.H. Itin 4 folio volumes 1283published at Boulak
consists largely in quotationstheological andis mainly
commentary.from Fakhr el-din's
edition. This edition isThe gloss of the Lucknow3.
well asmarginal and interlinear notes, asprovided with
reader in referring the prono-figures to guide thewith
competent scholars.work of some veryminal affixes, the
word for word in the work ofof the glosses occurMost
of this edi-all. Were the lithographyEl-Khafajl, but not