Abū al-Baqāʼ al-Kaffawī
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Abū al-Baqāʼ · ابو البقاء · the author of al-Kullīyāt · أبي البقاء · ابي البقاء · صاحب الكليات · كليانه
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Author of the lexicon of technical terms cited here to explain the difference between nominal and real definition.
) The generality of the masters of the religious communities (milal) who credit the prophets have acknowledged its existence, and a great company of the ancient philosophers acknowledged it as well.
al-rūḥ, with u, is the air that passes back and forth in man's ducts and passages, and it is also a name for the soul (nafs), and so on.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The lexicographer known as the author of al-Kullīyāt, invoked as the authority who allows the construction the editor judges less eloquent.
say rather *wa-in kāna al-insān al-ẓāhir yaḍʻuf fa-al-bāṭin yantaʻish*, for that is the more eloquent — even though Abū al-Baqāʼ, the author of *al-Kullīyāt*, allows you to place *illā annahu* here, so that on his reckoning it is permissible for you to say *wa-in kāna al-insān al-ẓāhir yaḍʻuf illā anna al-bāṭin yantaʻish*.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Author of the Kulliyyāt, quoted for the definition of rūḥ.
And in the Kulliyyāt of Abū al-Baqāʼ: