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From: hakim@post.tau.ac.il [mailto:hakim@post.tau.ac.il]
List Editor: Letizia Osti <letizia.osti@BLUEWIN.CH>
Editor's Subject: H-MEM: Ask
Author's Subject: H-MEM: Ask
Date Written: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:33:08 +0100
Date Posted: Wed, 27 Oct 2009 06:33:08 -0400

Sent: 26 October 2009 21:43

Greetings

It seems that Ali b. Nasir was a contemporary of al-Sharif al-Radi the
compilator of the Nahj, and is considered to be the author of the
earliest sharh of Nahj al-Balagha (see: I'jaz Husayn, Kashf al-Hujub, p.
53; quoted by al-Amini, al-Ghadir, vol. 4, p. 186; and Agha Buzurg,
Dhari'a, vol 2, p. 240). Agha Buzurg believed that I'jaz Husayn al-Hindi
(d. 1286 AH) owned a manuscript of this Sharh (Agha Buzurg, al-Nabisn fi
al-Qarn al-Khamis, p. 132).
However, a meticulous research undertaken in Majallat Turathuna (n.
35, p. 156) shows that I'jaz Husayn was mistaken and that Ali b. Nasir
lived un the 7th century AH.
I hope this helps

Avraham Hakim
University of Tel-Aviv

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