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Country

Turkey

City

Ankara

Institution

Ankara Üniversitesi Yazma Eserleri Kütüphanesi

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3784

Contents

Work 2: Tuḥfetü’l-Leṭāyif (ʿAbdülcebbāroğlu Aḥmed, fl. 14th c.)

LOC subject headings

Turkish language To 1500

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 (Biography)

Author

ʿAbdülcebbāroğlu Aḥmed, fl. 14th c.

عبد الجبّاراوغلي احمد

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ʿAbdülcebbāroğlu Aḥmed, fl. 14th c. (authorised)

عبد الجبّاراوغلي احمد (variant)

Biographical notes

Nothing is known of this fourteenth-century author’s life except that his patron was Aydınoğlu Gazi Umur Paşa, 1309-1348, the ruler of the Aydınids in central western Anatolia along the Aegean coast, and that he was the author of Leṭāyifü’l-ḳudsiyye as well as another similar work entitled Tuḥfetü’l-Leṭāyif, likewise dedicated to Umūr Paşa.

Title

Tuḥfetü’l-Leṭāyif

تحفة اللطائف

Notes

The Tuḥfetü’l-Leṭāyif is an Old Anatolian Turkish prose prophetic biography or sīra, with consisting of 15 sections, including a separate section on the Prophet Muḥammad’s Ascension or mirʿāj. Abdülbaki Çetin demonstrates that this work is revised version of the author’s Leṭāyifü’l-ḳudsiyye, rewritten specifically with the author’s Aydınid patron, Umūr Paşa. in mind. The work survives in a unique manuscript in Ankara at the Türk Dili Seminari Kitaplığı.

Composed in the Aydınid realm, western Anatolia (Aegean region of Anatolia)

Main language of text

Turkish

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History

Date of copy

20th. century