More #ShiiTheology commentary by a little known 9/15th century #SayyidAbdalWahhabAstarabadi on #NasiralDinTusi (d. 672/1274) pithy four chapters on divine simplicity, prophecy, the Imamate, and the afterlife published by the shrine of #ImamHusayn 1/
Precious commentaries included #Tusi contemporary #MaythamalBahrani (d. 699/1300), #MiqdadalSiyuri (d. 826/1423) but the work was a mainstay of the #Hilla school of #ShiiTheology 2/
Of course the #Fusul of #Tusi is often thought to have first been penned in his #Ismaili phase in #Persian although most of the commentaries are in #Arabic following the Arabic translation of Rukn al-Din Hilli student of the famous #’Allama_Hilli 3/
#Astarabadi completed his text in 23 Rajab 883/1478 and one of his students wrote a marginal gloss in the following year 4/
#Astarabadi is also credited by the bio-bibliographers with a gloss on #alHidaya an Avicennian textbook penned by #AthiralDinAbhari but we do not know if it is extant 5/
In terms of his legacy, we know of his ‘son’ #SayyidMuhammadTaqi (d. 1057/1647, either the death date is wrong or he is his grandson) wrote a set of glosses on the #ps_Farabi #Fusus_fi_l_hikma edited by #AliOwjabi 6/
His student #AliZavariIsfahani taught the famous exegete #FathullahKashani (d. 988/1580 7/
The incipit of the earliest extant manuscript in Isfahan University Library dated 25 Dhu-l-Qa’da 1082/1671 8/
The incipit of the manuscript in the library of the shrine of #ImamHusayn dated 13 Rabi II 1152/1739 9/
The introduction begins with a quick summary of the beginnings of the #Mu’tazila and the #Asha’ira and their key doctrines and laments the mixture of #GreekPhilosophy with #Muslim beliefs - he doesn’t seem to share #Tusi own vision of philosophy #ShiiTheology 10/
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