ABU JA’FAR TAHAWI’S WORK «AQIDA»: GENERAL CONTENT AND THE COPIES OF ITS MANUSCRIPTS

This article provides information on the content, as well as an analysis of manuscripts of the treatise “Aqeeda” by Abu Jafar Tahawi who was a famous Egyptian scholar with his works in the field of hadith, Qur’an and Islamic theology, and lived in the 9th-10th centuries. The work “al-Aqeeda al-Tahawiyya” is widely known, and was also commented by medieval and modern scholars not only in those countries where the Hanafi School predominates, but also in other regions where the rest of the madhhabs “Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama’a” are spread. In particular, in the article, some topics of Aqeeda are deeply investigated through conducting a codicological analysis of different copies of manuscripts of the book stored in various funds of the world. Also, after conducting a comparative analysis of copies of manuscripts of the work, the reasons for the use of certain terms in the same context are assessed from the point of Aqeeda. The article used copies of the manuscripts of the book, which are stored in Egypt, where the author himself lived, as well as Turkish funds, which are famous for the large number of manuscripts of various Islamic works.