Rukopis Mehmeda Handžića magma ‘Al-Biha fi tarih Al-'ulum

Enciklopedija historije islamskih znanosti i knjiga

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Mehmed Handžić (1906-1944), the author of several books in the field of Islamic studies and cultural heritage of Bosnian Muslims, has written the work Magma ‘al-bihar fi tarih al- ’ulum wa al-asfdr in Arabic. This work is
kept in Gazi Husrev-bey’ s Library (T-95). According to the author’s plan,
this work was to be a complete work on the history of Sciences from the begining of Islam to his time. Unfortunately, sudden death prevented the completion of the work, and there is only the first unfinished volume and the first part of the second volume. In the first volume, and it is the subject of this paper, the intorduction and two of the eight planned chapters were written.
The introduetion is of general character and it diseusses the concept and definition of Science in the works of Muslim authors. It also diseusses important historical nations and their contribution to the development of Science and in the end speaks about types of books and different classifica- tions of Science.
The subject of the first chapter are the studies of writing, in which the author diseusses the necessity of introducing writing. He discusses the system of graphic signs which enable written communication, as one of the forms of interpersonal communication.
This chapter also deals with the origin of writing - whether it is the result of God’s inspiration or the creation of man as a social being wanting to express his sociality. The author also diseusses the introduetion of writing among Arabs, as well as the development and expansion of Arabic script outside the Arabic language area.
The author in this chapter diseusses the characteristics of Arabic script, such as the numerical value of letters, then several types of sequence of the Arabic alphabet, as well as the attempt of introducing notation of vowels with specific signs following the model of Latin writing.
The second chapter diseusses a group of scientific disciplines whose object of interest are simple linguistic units as autonomous statements, which can at the same time he parts of linguistic units of a higher level. All these units could be studied from various aspects, so that each of these approaches at the same time designates a separate scientific discipline within this group of sciences ,
According to the author’s classification there are the following disciplines: fonetics, morphology, etimology, semasiology and lexicology. The author diseusses each of these scientific disciplines, emphasizing their origin, definition, development and the most important authors and their works. Thus he concludes this otherwise unfinished work.
According to the chapter on classification of Sciences in respect to their subject, the author planned to write eight chapters discussing eight groups of Sciences. The following were not finished: Science dealing with complex linguistic details, historical Sciences, Science of theology and sharia, rational instrumental sciences, theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy.

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1996-12-31

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