al-Faharis al-Ilmiyya li-Athar al-Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
- Author died
- -
- Editions
- Dar Ata'at al-Ilm
al-Faharis al-Ilmiyya li-Athar al-Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (The Scholarly Indices to the Works of Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya) is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary subject index compiled by a team of scholars under the direction of Ali ibn Muhammad al-Imran, indexing the scholarly heritage and religious sciences contained across the published corpus of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (691–751 AH / 1292–1350 CE).
Background and Purpose
The work was composed as the concluding index for the major publication project Athar al-Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya wa-ma Lahiqaha min A'mal (The Works of Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and Associated Studies). Its stated purpose is to make Ibn al-Qayyim’s extensive discussions accessible to researchers, scholars, and students by gathering his dispersed commentary on individual topics and legal or theological questions in single locations. The project fulfilled an ambition outlined decades earlier by Bakr Abu Zayd in his work al-Taqrib li-'Ulum Ibn al-Qayyim (Approximating the Sciences of Ibn al-Qayyim), where he had expressed the hope that his initial primer would be followed by a comprehensive, exhaustive indexing of all sciences across Ibn al-Qayyim's writings.
The introduction was signed by Ali ibn Muhammad al-Imran on 8 Rabi al-Awwal 1441 AH (November 2019 CE). Siraj Munir assisted in the early preparation and revision stages, while Khalid Muhammad Jaballah coordinated, formatted, and produced the final layout.
Scope and Methodology
The work is restricted strictly to analytical scholarly indices (faharis 'ilmiyya) rather than bare lexical concordances (faharis lafziyya). Consequently, Quranic verses, hadiths, and biographical names mentioned in passing without substantive commentary or explanation are excluded, while specific verses or traditions that Ibn al-Qayyim interpreted or expounded upon are indexed. The only purely lexical index included is that of cited book titles.
The compilation process followed several systematic steps:
- Gathering and classifying the individual scholarly indices prepared for each volume published throughout the broader project.
- Generating fresh scholarly indices for shorter treatises that previously lacked them, including Siyagh al-Hamd, Risalat Ibn al-Qayyim ila Ahad Ikhwanih, and the introduction to his didactic poem al-Kafiya al-Shafiya (popularly known as al-Nuniyya).
- Extracting scholarly points from general thematic tables of contents for works whose primary discussions had not been incorporated into individual scholarly indices, such as Tahdhib al-Sunan, Rawdat al-Muhibbin, and Kalam 'ala Mas'alat al-Sama'.
- Merging indices within each discipline around a selected base text containing the most diverse material for that subject, while dividing broad disciplines such as jurisprudence (fiqh) into smaller sub-units (such as ritual purity and prayer).
- Harmonizing similar points under a single standardized phrasing followed by cross-references to all the titles in which they occur, and arranging topics according to conventional classifications of Islamic disciplines.
- Introducing newly created topical divisions where accumulated material justified an independent index, such as legal etiquette (al-adab al-shar'iyya).
Each entry provides the extracted benefit in bold text, followed by abbreviated title references placed in small parentheses, along with volume and page citations.
Answer updated