The Oxford manuscript of Ibn Taymiyya's anti-Christian polemics

^{page 124 note 1} Nicoll knew the title (Bayān) al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ, etc. only from Ḥājjī Khalifa; he noticed its similarity to the title as given in the Oxford MS and suggested that the two titles may refer to the same work. The note In the Leiden Catalogue by de Jong and de Goeje (IV, p. 251): ‘The Bodleian MS Nic. 45 contains another, but this time complete, copy of the same work [al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥiḥ]’ is erroneous and is possibly based on the remark of Nicoll just referred to.

^{page 124 note 2} Ibn Taymiyya‘s name is Abu'l-'Abbās Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Halīm … b. Muhammad; the form given in the title is erroneous.

^{page 125 note 1} I do not know why this curious form of the name (referring to Ibn Taymiyya's ancestor Muhammad ?) was chosen.

^{page 126 note 1} A book by Ibn Taymiyya bearing the title of Kitāb al-nubuwwāt has been published in Cairo in 1346, and registered by Brockelmann, , Supplement, II, 120, no. 3. (I am much obliged to Professor H. Laoust for lending me his copy.) This book, however, deals with the miracles of the Prophet from an inner Islamic dogmatic point of view, and polemizes against Muslims who hold opinions different from those of the author rather than against the Ahl al-Kitāb; and there is no connexion between it and the present MS.

^{page 127 note 1} See Hājjī Khalīfa, I, 379, immediately preceding the article about Ibn Taymiyya's Takhjīl (see above); Brockelmann, I, 553, Suppl., I, 766 (where Abu'1-Fadl [read so for Abu'1-Fidā'] al-Su'ūdī's epitome is again registered, this time in the correct context [though it is not made clear that it is an epitome of the Takhjīl, not of the al-Bayān al-wadūh]); Fritsch, E, Islam und Christentum im Mittelalter, Breslau, 1930, 17. According to M. Steinschneider, Polemische und apologetische Literatur in arabischer Sprache, 36, the MS Atif Efendi 5 contains the Takhjīl, according to Brockelmann the al-Bayān al-wadūh. Al-Safī b. al-'Assal's [d. before 1260] Nahj al-sabīl is (of course) not a refutation of ‘Ibn Taymiyya's [born 1263] Takhjīj ahl al-injīl’ (Cheikho, L, al-Makhtūtāt al-'arabiyya li-katabat al-nasrāniyya, Beirut, 1924, p. 12, quoted by Fritsch, , p. 25), but of Abu'l-Baqā's Takhjīl, as it is correctly stated in Graf, G, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, II, 389.

^{page 127 note 2} Disputatio pro religione Muhammedanorum adversus Christianos, Leiden, 1877–1890.