Schmidtke, SabineSabineSchmidtke2019-11-302019-11-302020Sabine Schmidtke, "For Sale to the Highest Bidder: A Precious Shiʿi Manuscript from the Early Eleventh Century," Shii Studies Review 4 (2020), pp. 184-193.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/7876The prominent Twelver Shiʿi scholar and poet, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn "al-Sharīf al-Raḍī" (d. 406 AH/1015 CE), author of a Qurʾān commentary in ten volumes, Ḥaqāʾiq al-taʾwīl fī mutashābih al-tanzīl, which has only partly been preserved, and compiler of the renowned anthology of testimonials, opinions, and sayings attributed to Imām ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 AH/661 CE), Nahj al-balāgha, also composed a comprehensive, and largely unprecedented book on the metaphors in the Qurʾān, Talkhīṣ al-bayān ʿan majāzāt al-Qurʾān. A remarkable manuscript containing volume two of the work is currently offfered for sale by the UK auctioneer Dreweatts ...deal-Sharif al-RadiTalkhis al-bayan 'an majazat al-Qur'anArticledoi:10.1163/24682470-123400630000-0002-6181-5065