Theriac (Antidote) of the Intellects in the Science of the Fundamentals

Tiryāq al-ʿUqūl fī ʿIlm al-Uṣūl · Abu al-Khayr al-Rashid ibn al-Tayyib (al-Rashid Abu al-Khayr ibn al-Tayyib), Coptic priest and physician, Cairo · written between 1204 and c. 1245 (Graf II 344-348) · treatise

Coptic · domain: copto-arabic · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

Coptic Encyclopedia entry CE:20b-21a (Vincent Frederick, after Graf II 344-348) describes the 24-chapter dogmatic section and the appended florilegium, and its bibliography lists only the Arabic text in al-Muʾtaman ibn al-ʿAssāl's Majmūʿ Uṣūl al-Dīn (Cairo 1908) and Sbath's Fihris — no translation of any language: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/40 . Graf, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur II (archive.org full text, item GGrafGeschichte, §112, pp. 344-348) registers the manuscripts and prints only German analyses/excerpts from M. Khouzam's 1941 French study; he records no translation: https://archive.org/details/GGrafGeschichte . HOLLIS Primo query 'Tiryak al-uqul' returns 0 records and 'Ibn al-Rashid' returns 33 records of unrelated authors (Ibn al-Rashid al-Zubayr, etc.), none of them this work or any English version: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Tiryak%20al-uqul&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 . Not covered by Budge's Coptic texts, the Cistercian/ACW/FOTC series (all Coptic-era or Greek/Latin authors) or Gorgias/Peeters Copto-Arabic lists.

Apologetic summa written at the request of the Fatimid vizier Taqi al-Din as a counter to Muslim polemic; al-Muʾtaman ibn al-ʿAssāl excerpted it in his own Majmūʿ Uṣūl al-Dīn, and CCE notes that two treatises printed among Ibn Kabar's works are in fact by Ibn al-Tayyib. A large, theologically sophisticated text with no English access at all. CCE entry reference: CE:20b-21a. Graf §112 = 'Ar-Rasid Abu l-Hair ibn at-Taiyib'.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: restricted scan — 1 candidate(s). Only witness located, and it is exactly the work (82 folios). No print of the Cairo 1908 Majmūʿ Uṣūl al-Dīn (which excerpts the Tiryāq) or of Sbath's Fihris was found as a scan on IA/BnF. The Vatican scan is low-resolution (1140 px wide master) and carries no text layer, so any use means manual transcription from images.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Abu al-Khayr al-Rashid ibn al-Tayyib Coptic priest and physician Cairo — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/GGrafGeschichte
• https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/40
• HOLLIS search — Tiryak al-uqul

Cite: Tergwame, “Theriac (Antidote) of the Intellects in the Science of the Fundamentals” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/copto-arabic-ibn-al-rashid-tiryaq-al-uqul