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'ABD AL--FATTAH AL-'ASKARI OF GUJARAT: HIS TI1\1ES, LIFE AND WORKS* SAYYID AKBAR ALI TIRl\IIZI ** ·IN order to appreciate the life .
-It is significant to note that "Abd al-Fattah was born at the end of the sixteenth century when Gujarat was in a state of flux.
We are told that Sultan Muhammad Shah II placed his own library under the control of Sayyid 'Uthman alias Sharn-i• Burhani (d.
Muhammad of Gujarat, who flourished in the reign of Sultan Qutb al-Din (855-863 A.
z To the mosque near the mausoleum of Shaykh Ahmad Khattu at Sarkhej, a suburb of Ahmadabad, was attached a madrasa which had on its staff eminent scholars like al-Faqih Hasan al-Arab al-Dhaboli in the reign of Sultan Muzaffar II (917-9:12 A.
s 'Abd al-Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, the l\Iughal Governor or Gujarat, whose court at Ahmadabad was a great rendezvous of savants and scholars, is, reported to have received instruction from the Shaykh .
The Mss. of these commentaries preserved in the Pir Muhammad Shah Library at · Ahmadabad are numbered 8/107 and 8/449 respectively.
39 There is another copy of the same work in the library of Fir Muhammad Shah at Ahmadabad.
43 As far as India is concerned 'Abd al-F attahs Durr-i• Maknun occupies a distinct place among the selections of the Mathna wi, There are three manuscripts of this work in the library of Fir Muhammad Shah at Ahmedabad.
Maulavi 'Abd ul-Muqtadir , Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts tn the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore, Persian Poets, Calcutta, 1908, No. 77.