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Introduction
houseinPoznań(1848").Wealsofoundthatalthoughite[istsintheformofatefsir9theArabic
manuscriptkeptintheGrodnoStateMuseumoftheHistoryofReligionanddescribedinthe
museumcatalogueastheQur¶an(ɄapaH)isactuallyatranslationoftheQur¶anintoPolishthat
wasretransliteratedfromtheLatinalphabetintotheArabicscriptandsignedbyJanMurza
TarakBuczacki.ThismeansthattheTefsirofGrodnoisanother(formal)VersionofthePhilo-
mathtranslationoftheHolyScriptureofIslam9towhichtheanonymousauthorgaVetheform
ofatraditionalTatartefsirrecordedintheArabicscript.
Owingtothis9asmanyasfourVersionsofthePhilomathtranslationoftheQur¶anwere
identifiedandthenewlydiscoVeredmanuscriptfromCzombrowproVidesthebasisforallthese
Variants2.
WhilestudyingthefragmentofthemanuscriptfromCzombrow9weaskedmanyquestions
eVenthoughwedidnotalwaysfindanswers.Wewerewondering9amongothers9whetherthe
manuscriptistheoriginaltranslationrenderedbyReV.DionizyChlewińskiandIgnacyDomey-
kooralatercopythereofmadebyananonymousauthorfromamongeitherthePhilomathsor
MuslimTatarsfromNowogrodek.Unfortunately9thelackofcomparatiVemanuscriptreference
materialdepriVedusofthebasisfordrawingsomeconclusionsabouttheauthorshipofthedis-
coVeredfragment.NeVertheless9weanalysedotherTatarmanuscriptsthatoriginatedatasimilar
timeandplace.ThegroundforpropoundingasurprisinghypothesiswasproVidedbytheTefsir
ofAlytus.Itwaswrittenin17239but-asindicatedbyacorrespondingentry-wascorrected
andcommentedonbytheImamofVinkãnupiai9IbrahimJanuszewski9in1836(113yearslater)3.
ThesimilarityofImamJanuszewski¶shandwritingwiththatVisibleonthefragmentfromCzom-
browissoeVidentthatitmaybereasonabletoconcludethatImamIbrahimJanuszewskimade
acopyoftheoriginaltranslationofthePhilomathtranslation.HoweVer9thisthesismustbeVeri-
fied9alsobyane[pertgraphologist.
FurtherquestionsweaskedconcernedtheplacewherethemanuscriptwasdiscoVered.We
deVotedmuchattentiontothecultureandpatriotism-formingroleofPolishlandownersinthe
nineteenthcenturyandtheassociationsofthemanorinCzombrowwiththeTatarsfromNowo-
grodekandthePhilomathsfromVilnius.WhileadirectrelationshipbetweentheheirsofCzom-
browandtheMuslimTatarscouldnotbeconfirmed9therelationshipbetweentheowners
ofCzombrowandthePhilomathsseemstobeobVious.AccordingtosomeresearchersofAdam
Mickiewicz¶slifeandwork9CzombrowwasaprototypeofMickiewicz¶sSoplicowo9themanor
describedinhisepicpoemPInTIdBusz4.ItisafactthatAdamMickiewiczhadcloserelations
withthemanorinCzombrow.hismotherserVedthereasthefirst-aidmaidandtheheiress
ofthemanorwashisgodmother.DuringhisstayinNowogrodekandVilnius9Mickiewiczmust
haVeVisitedCzombrowand9asastudentoftheVilniusUniVersity9mightbringhisPhilomath
2ThediscoVeryandidentificationofthemanuscriptwasdescribedbyJoannaPuchalska(seeherpaperand
listofreferencesherein).Seealso.C.Łapicz9NiBzwykłBlosypiBrwszBgodrukowInBgoprzBkłIduKorInunI
językpolski9nPoznańskieStudiaPolonistyczne.SeriaJęzykoznawczaD20139Vol.20(40)9No.29pp.129-143;
A.Konopacki9J.Kulwicka-Kamińska9C.Łapicz9NiBznInyrękopispolskiBgoprzBkłIduKorInu9in.(stBtycznB
IspBktylitBrIturypolskich)biIłoruskichilitBwskichTItIrów(odXVIdoXXIwż)9eds.G.Czerwiński9
A.Konopacki9Białystok20159pp.49-67;A.Konopacki9J.Kulwicka-Kamińska9C.Łapicz9CztBrywIriInty
filomIckiBgoprzBkłIduKorInu(XIXwż)9in.TItIrskiBdziBdzictwokulturowB9Vol.2.HistoriIżLitBrIturIż
SztukI9eds.J.Kulwicka-Kamińska9C.Łapicz9G.Miãkiniene9Toruń20189pp.7-33.
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Ibrahim(Abraham)JanuszewskibecameImamofVinkãnupiaiin18309afterthedemiseofImamMustafa
Bazarewski9andserVeduninterruptedlyuntilhisdeathinJune1846.A.Konopacki9ĩyciBrBligijnBTItIrównI
ziBmiIchWiBlkiBgoKsięstwILitBwskiBgowXVI-XIXwiBku9Warsaw20109pp.195-196).
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J.Puchalska9KorInwSoplicowiBżTIjBmniczIhistoriIpBwnBgomInuskryptu9nŻycieTatarskieD20149
No.39(116)9pp.99-105;eadem9'ziBdziczkiSoplicowI9Warsaw2014.
