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Printed Editions of Arabic text of al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya

At the risk of stating the obvious there are many editions of Nasafi’s creed (al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya) in circulation for as soon as it was first released ¹ it was widely circulated therefore a discussion of the many published editions of this work is in order. This work continued to be popular into the modern period even as soon as Modern Arabic printing using moveable metal type started this was one of the early printed texts where in 1843 the Rev. Curton published it. As we mentioned elsewhere it was commented on by many authors. The most popular and widely circulated commentary is by Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī simply titled Sharḥ al-ʿaqāʾida al-Nasafiyya (commentary on Nasafi’s creed)

Early Printed Editions:

• • Najm al-Dīn al-Nasafī, ʿAqāʾid, second creed in William Cureton (ed.), Pillar of the creed of the Sunnites (London 1843). PDF and PDF.
  • An early printed version perhaps the first Muslim print on record is the ʿĀmira Press at the Astana (Istanbul) 1308/1891. PDF
  • Another printed edition from Turkey printed in 1320/1902 with the super commentaries (ḥāshiya) of Ramadan Effendi. PDF
  • Another printed edition from Turkey (reprinted in Baghdad by offset printing) the original printed in 1326/1908 with three super commentaries (ḥāshiya) of Muṣliḥ al-dīn Muṣṭafā al-Kastali (d. 901/1496) Aḥmad b. Mūsā al-Khayyāli (d. 860/1456) and Ramadan (Effendi) al-bahshatī (d. 979/1571) PDF
  • Halabi’s edition no date with Aḥmad b. Mūsā al-Khayyāli’s (d. 860/1456) ḥāshiya and al-ʿIṣām’s sharaḥ PDF

Modern editions (available in PDF):

• • Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqāʾida al-Nasafiyya, ed. Aḥmad Ḥijāzī al-Saqqā, Maktabat al-Kuliyyāt al-Azhariyya, Cairo 1988. PDF.
  • Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharaḥ al-Aqīdah al-Nasfiyya – ed. Claude Salama, Wazārat al-thaqāfa wa al-irshād al-qawmī, Damascus, 1974. (PDF) one of the best editions. link to complete PDF edition.
  • Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. Muṣṭafā Marzūqī, Dār al-Huda, ʿAīn Malīla, Algeria 2000. PDF.
  • Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, with margins by Mawlana Muḥammad ʿAlī, Maktabat al-Bushra, Karachi 2009. PDF.
  • Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, with margins by Ṣadr al-wari al-Qādrī al-Miṣbaḥī, Maktabat al-Madina, Karachi 2012. PDF.
  • Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. ʿAlī Kamāl, Dār Iḥayaʾ al-turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut 2014. PDF. Note this edition has the Hadith verification of Mulla ʿAlī Qārī in the margins.
  • ʿUmar al-Nasafī, al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. ʿAlī Kamāl, Dār al-Bashāʾir al-Islāmiyya, Beirut 1993. PDF
  • Ramaḍān Effendi, al-Kastālī, al-Khayālī, al-Majmūʿa al-sinaiyya ʿalā Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. Marʿī Ḥasan al-Rashīd, Dār Nūr al-Ṣabāḥ, Midyat, Turkey 2012. PDF. Note this PDF only has the text of just al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya.**
  • Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. Muḥammad Muṣʿab Bakr al-Dīn Kalthūm, Markaz al-Hāshimiyya, Istanbul 2018. PDF. Note this PDF only has the text of just al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya.**
  • Saʿd al-dīn al-Taftāzānī, Sharḥ al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya, ed. Anas Muḥammad ʿAdnān al-Sharafāwī, Dār al-Taqwa, Damascus 2020. PDF. one of the best editions. link to complete PDF edition.

** Partial PDFs.

Modern printed editions of super commentaries (available in PDF):

• • al-Kanāqarī, ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥasan, Ḥashiyat al-Kānqarī [on Khayālī], Dār al-Ṭibāʿa al-ʿĀmira, Bulaq (Cairo) November 1838.

1. As with all books that were written in Pre-modern period, books were released to the copyist who would in turn sell them to the stationer (paper merchant/book sellers) or the author would hold public lectures at Mosques, Schools, and other venues and not published in modern sense.