Suhrawardi - Three Treatises on Mysticism.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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J^ 5 AJ o/i 4XJ1 . .AC-
*S " S -^ W*
We could utilise this manuscript, through
the kind offices
of Mr. Syed Akhtar Imam, M.A. student of Arabic in the
Muslim University, who carefully collated our text with this
manuscript. We thank him very much for his help We
denote the Bankipore manuscript by B while the Constantinople
manuscript is denoted by A. In the list of the variants the
abbreviation means j **** j?
IV. Tarjuma lisan ul-haqq wa-huwa* risalat ut-tair.
The next treatise belongs to just the same literary genre
as the preceding treatises. The author calls it "Translation of
the language of Truth and this is The Treaties of the Bird".
(a)
The Treatise.
According to H Khal. Ill, p. 418 both Ibri Sina and
al-Ghazall have composed Arabic treatises under the sa-me
title. TJ Klial. does riot mention that of Suhrawerdl. The
Arnbic text of Ibn Slna's treatise was edited by M.A.F. Mehren
with a French translation \ By a comparison of the Arabic and
Persian texts we come to the conclusion that both are almost
identical and that the Persian version is more or less a
translation of the Arabic text although
additions or omissions in this text or that.
there are sometimes
1. Trait6s Mystiques, 2 i&nae Fascicule, Leiden 1891. ^According
to
ili, Qamus, page 251, it was also published again in "Al-Mashriq "
Vol. IV, page 772.