Wadh.Minasian 7 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Summary of Contents: al-ʾAlfīyah fī al-naḥv or al-Khulāṣah fī al-naḥv is a work by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ṭāʾī Jīyānī knwon as Ibn Mālik (died 672 AH), where he has presented a versified account of the Arabic syntax in 1000 couplets, hence known as Alfīyah. It has been the focus of attention of many scholars, and many commentaries have been written on it. Awz̤aḥ al-Masālik ilá alfīyah Ibn Mālik, later known as al-Tawz̤īḥ, is one of these commentaries written by Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf Anṣārī Miṣrī known as Ibn Hishām. The current copy is a supercommentary by Abū al-Valīd Zayn al-Dīn Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh Azhar‭‭ī Shāfiʿī (died 905 AH) on that commentary. He was a scholar of the Arabic language, contemporary to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī and Jalāl al-Dīn Sayūṭī, and wrote this work in 896 AH.