Compendia Hanafianae

notes on medieval Muslim legal history

Quduri manuscript database updated to Hanafi scholars database

The "Quduri Manuscripts" database has been updated to a wider "Hanafi Scholars" database. All that was in the previous database still remains, but I have now included more biographies of scholars historically preceding and following al-Qudūrī.

Again, most manuscript information has been gathered primarily for the works of al-Qudūrī himself, and those works based upon his works. The list of works authored by any of the mentioned scholars is not currently exhaustive in the least.

With time, over the coming months and years, I hope to continue to add information to the entries of the currently 115 Hanafi authors currently in the database, and to continue to add more biographical, bibliographical, and manuscript-related entries as my research continues. Nonetheless, I believe that even in its current form, it might prove useful insofar as it collect this information in English and in one place.

This database will also form the basis of the upcoming updates to the Hanafi scholars timeline, and a map of Hanafi teacher:student chains of transmission which I am developing.

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Quduri Manuscript Database

The page "Manuscripts of Quduri commentaries" contains a FileMaker database which aims to contain (1) all the titles of works by al-Qudūrī; (2) all the works related to his works, whether commentaries, glosses, or otherwise; (3) for each work mentioned, instances of extant manuscripts or printed editions of that work.

Note, however, that while the database aims to exhaustively list every title written by Qudūrī or related to his works, the database does not aim nor claim to exhaustively list every extant manuscript thereof. The only titles for which I have entered every known manuscript that I have come across are: (1) al-Qudūri, al-Taqrīb; (2) al-Qudūrī, Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Karkhī; (3) al-Qudūrī, Ḥadīth, aw Juzʾ; (4) al-Qudūrī, Nabdha min Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa; and (5) al-Aqṭaʿ, Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī.

The other works do have many manuscript entries, nonetheless; however, I have largely entered those manuscripts which I found outside of Sezgin and Brockelmann, such as in Ḥabshī's Jāmiʿ al-Shurūḥ wa'l-Ḥawāshī, on http://yazmalar.gov.tr, and other such sources which I may not remember in the future. As for those manuscripts listed in Sezgin and Brockelmann: well, simply look them up there. View this database as a supplement to these two common reference works.

If you come across any works or manuscripts which I do not list here, and that are not simply mentioned in Brockelmann or Sezgin, please drop me a note or leave a comment below, and I will include them.