`Aqā´id al-Nasafī

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title:		`Aqā´id al-Nasafī
edition:		Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (ed.) The Oldest Known Malay Manuscript: a 16th century translation of the `Aqā´id of al-Nasafī, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya, 1988.
manuscript:		manuscript in the possession of Ungku Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Hamid.
dates:		text:  1590;    manuscript:  before about 1650, possibly 1590.
provenance:		unknown.
words:		2971 words
references:		numbered paragraphs of the edited edition, in two parts: a1 - a23:  paragraphs of `Aqā´id b1 - b6:  paragraphs of an untitled treatise.

 

Editorial notes and bibliography

The text presented here is:

•  a1-a23:  the interlinear Malay gloss on the Arabic text of `Aqā´id.

•  b1-b6:  the interlinear Malay gloss on a short untitled treatise included in the same manuscript.

Naquib al-Attas discusses many interesting features of the orthography (pp.44-45), which are not all reproduced in the MCP text.

The published text includes diacritics and indications of vowel length in some words borrowed frim Arabic.  These are not reproduced in the text presented here.

Reference:

Werner Kraus, "The Oldest Known Malay Manuscript" [Short Note], Indonesia Circle no.57, June 1992, pp.38-39 -- corrects some inferences about the manuscript's history in Europe.

 

Preparation

Added:  November 2005

The text was scanned in Canberra for MCP.