Jazeel Abdul-Jabbar Al-Jomar PhD Thesis

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A CRITICAL EDITION OF "AL-TPýRfKH AL-ISLKMf
AL-MUKIITAýAR" BZ SHIBýB AL-DfN ABTJ ISIIýQ
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(583/1187-642/1244)
JýL-DAM AL-IiAYLAWf
By
JAZEEL ABDUL-JABBARLAL-IONIIARD
Thesis presented to the University of St. Andrews for the
Degree Doctor Philosophy
of of
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St. Andrews
January 1984.
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ABSTRACT
This Arabic
thesis presents a critical edition of a medieval
text, which is widely known under the insufficiently attested title
"al-Ta7rTkh It is to historian
al-MuzaffarP'.. ascribed a celebrated
the first half the 7th/13th Shihab
and scholar of of century, al-D n abU
Ishaq Ibi-ahlim b. (583/1187-642/1244),
abi al-Dam al-Hamawi al-Shafi'T
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Oudge)
QadT Hamah.
a native and of
The thesis consists of two parts, the introductory study and then
the text. The introductory study facilitates the understanding of the
problems the text raises and clarifies the more important issues
it.
surrounding
The first is intended to historical background.
chapter serve as a
A brief account, therefore, of the AyyUbid empire, together with a brief
history Ham9h, Ibn town, is to
of abFal-Dam's native presented shed
0
light the time.
on author's
The the introduction is devoted to the
second chapter of examining
life. The this the few.
author's sources concerning part of study are
Some the
of author's own works are still missing, others are at present
inaccessible. From the in MSS,
obtainable works either printed or a
reconstruction of the author's life and times has been made.
Sections I and 2 of the third and final chapter of the introductory
discuss
study the reliability of the ascription of the work to Ibn abTal-Dam
and the
controversial question of whether the title is if it is
original, and
not, what other title it could have had. The rest of this chapter has
been devoted
to Investigating and examining the MSS. in which the text
has been
transcribed the
preserved and ever since original was composed.
In the the I have the in
absence of original, chosen oldest and
the the five far
my opinion, most complete of only surviving copies so
identified located. This is to in this thesis by
and copy, which referred
(695/1295)
the Bo, in by Hamah, 53
abbreviation was written a native of
years after the death of the author. All the other four are almost
definitely date.
of a more recent
The second part of this thesis is the text, edited on the basis of
the MS. is in the Bodleian Library Oxford. The
oldest which preserved at
text has been transcribed the
retaining conventions, orthographic and
Additions
the wherever possible. and
grammatical of copyist
have been in their the the
modifications avoided unless absence sense of
is to the incomprehensibility. In these
passage obscured point of cases
A. Alexandria Municipal Library, E. Edinburgh University
other copies, of of
Library, Rand P2. Bankipore Public Library
and of were consulted and all
differenced between these MSS. however minor, are shown and detailed
,
in the footnotes.
The text, then is by indices towns,
supplemented of places,
tribes, followed by bibliography
sects and nations, which are a and maps.
(i)
DEDICATION
To
the
mY mother whose spirit and morale were candle which
illuminated her Whose has
sons' paths. sacrifice yielded to the
this believes is devoted
completion of project which she worthy of
effort.
To I
every mother with my admiration present this
..
modest work.
(ii)
DECLARATION
I fiEREBY DECLARE THAT THE FOLLOWING IS VIE
RESULT OF RESEARCH WORK CARRIED OUT BY ME, Tl-lAT ThE
T-HESIS IS MY OWN COMPOSITION AND THAT IT HAS NOT
PREVIOUSLY BEEN SUBMITTED FOR ANY OTHER DEGREE.
J. A. J. AL-JOMARD
ST. ANDREWS
January,
1984.
(iii)
CERTIFICATION
I CERTIFY TtiAT JAZEEL ABDUL JABBAR AL-JOMARD hAS
COMPLETED NINE TERMS OF RESEARCA WORK IN TkiE UNITED
COLLEGE OF ST. SALVATOR AND ST. LEONARD, UNIVERSITY OF
I
ST. ANDREWS, THAT HE HAS FULFILLED TffE CONDITIONS OF
(1967)
RESOLUTION NO. 1 OF THE UNIVERSITY COURT, AND
THAT HE IS QUALIFIED TO SUBMIT TlfE ACCOMPANYING TifESIS
I
IN APPLICATION FOR TIIE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF P. UILOSOP11Y.
(DR. )
D. E. P. JACKSON
SUPERVISOR.
January,
1984.
tLVI
ACKNOWLEDGE MENTS
I like to deepest to Dr. D. E'. P.
should express my gratitude
Jackson, for his this
my supervisor, guidance without which work
..
have been My thanks due to
would not accomplished. are also
Arabic Studies for his
Dr. J. Burton the Department of valuable
of
help throughout the
and constant encouragement period of preparation
,
this thesis.
of
I.
I to the Librarians the University Library
am also grateful of
for their persistent effort to make the academic research less toilsome.
Many thanks are also due to the administration of the University
St. Andrews, to the the
of especially accommodation officers, warden
David Russell Hall for their kindness tolerance towards
and staff of and
by financial difficulties.
problems caused my personal
Finally, I like to thank Mrs. E. Kerr, Secretary the
should of
Department Arabic Studies, for typing this thesis.
of I
(v)
TABLE OF TRANSLITERATION
Consonants
(ex
z q
ce pt
initial)
when
U- k
b
S
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th m
d
dj
= n
h
h t
kh
Z w
d
r Ls y
dh
gh
f
r
Short Vowels: Lon2 Vowels:
a
u
u
Ls
P! Double Vowels:
Phtho in2s:
W.
aw c, ý- = aww
ay uww
iyy