Tuhfat al-Mushtaq ila Sharh Abyat al-Mawla Ishaq
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- 1221 AH
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Tuhfat al-Mushtaq ila Sharh Abyat al-Mawla Ishaq (The Gift of the Desirous in Explaining the Verses of al-Mawla Ishaq) is a literary commentary written by the Yemeni Zaydi jurist and man of letters al-Husayn ibn Ahmad al-Siyaghi (1180–1221 AH / 1766–1806 CE) .
Subject and Context
The work is an analytical commentary on poetic verses and a verse riddle (lughz) composed by the Yemeni prince, historian, and poet Ishaq ibn Yusuf (1111–1173 AH / 1699–1760 CE), a descendant of al-Mutawakkil 'ala Allah Isma'il ibn al-Qasim . In the treatise, al-Siyaghi deciphers and elaborates on the literary, rhetorical, and linguistic subtleties of the riddle's meter and imagery .
Author
The author, Sharaf al-Din al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Siyaghi al-Haymi al-San'ani, was born in Sana'a on 22 Rabi' al-Awwal 1180 AH and died there on 8 Jumada al-Ula 1221 AH . Regarded among the prominent Zaydi scholars of Yemen of his era, his other writings include the legal commentary al-Rawd al-Nadir sharh Majmu' al-fiqh al-kabir on the legal collection attributed to Zayd ibn Ali, as well as al-Muzn al-matir 'ala al-Rawd al-nadir, a gloss on al-Hasan al-Jalal's treatise on the etiquette of dialectics .
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