The textology and requisites for a critical editing of the Hekmat-e Sadeqiyyeh: the important work by Hakim Molla Mohammad Sadeq-e Ardestani

The Hekmat-e Sadeqiyyehis one of the important works of Hakim Mohammad Sadeq-e Ardestani of which two editions have been made so far. Both editors have utilized a very limited number of imperfect manuscripts all with the second part of the work missing; they have in fact emended only a selection of Ardestani,s Hekmat. In addition, they do not seem to have consulted the commentaries and glossary written on this book so that they would add necessary grammatical and philosophical notes and glosses to their editions.
In this article, while addressing the textology of the Hekmat-e Sadeqiyyeh, the requirements for a critical edition of this work are put forth. To this end, the two afore-mentioned editions are separately compared with newly discovered and more complete manuscripts and then evaluated.