This early 19th-century work by Qara Hafiz Efendi on Arabic
<p>rhetoric (<em>balaagha</em>) is a commentary on <em>Talkhis al-Miftah </em>(The
summary of al-Miftah) by al-Khateeb al-Qizweeni (died 1338 [739 AH]). <em>Talkhis al-Miftah</em> was itself a
commentary on <em>Miftah al-Uloom</em> (The key to knowledge), by Abu Yaaqoob
as-Sikaki (died 1228 [626 AH]). Al-Qizweeni was a student of as-Sikaki, and
both men were important scholars of Arabic rhetoric. Efendi’s work also
contains excerpts from another work, a dictionary of language usage, figurative
speech, and simile by Abu l'Baqa al-Husseini al-Kufawi Al-Hanafi. The
manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the
University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO
Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a
Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a
collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that reflect the
development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th
century. The manuscript is item 365 in Jozef Blaškovič, <em>Arabské, turecké a
perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave</em> (Arab, Turkish, and
Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).
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Efendi, Qara Hafiz
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