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Turkey

City

Amasya

Institution

Amasya Beyazıt İl Halk Ktp.

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no. 305

Contents

Sharḥ al-Wiqāya (Ferişteoğlu Meḥmed bin ʿAbdüllaṭīf)

Author

Ferişteoğlu Meḥmed bin ʿAbdüllaṭīf

عبداللطيف ابن فرشته

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ʿAbdüllaṭīf b. Firişte (d. after 1418)

İbn Melek

İbn Firişte

İbn Ferişte

Ferişteoğlu

Ibn Malak

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz

ابن ملك

Ferişteoğlu Mehmed bin Abdüllatif, -1446 (authorised)

Ferişteoğlu, Mehmed bin Abdüllatif, -1446 (variant)

Ferişteoğlu Mehmed bin Abdüllatif, d. 1446 (variant)

Mehmed bin Abdüllatif, Ferişteoğlu, -1446 (variant)

Mehmed bin Ferişte, -1446 (variant)

Mehmed bin Melekzade, -1446 (variant)

Biographical notes

İbn Melek, a native of Tire (Turkey) during the Aydınid (Aydınoğulları) period, was a prolific author best known for his hadith and fiqh works which were taught in madrasas and survive in many manuscript copies. Having served as professor at the Tire (Turkey) at the madrasa built by Aydınoğlu Mübārizüddīn Meḥmed Beg (708/1308-733/1334) in the name of his father, ʿAbdülʿazīz Firişte, the qadı of Birgi, he composed primarily pedagogical works for madrasa instruction. His death date remains disputed, but be placed in the first quarter of the fifteenth century sometime after 821 AH [1418 CE]. İbn Melek’s brother (or son) ʿAbdülmecīd b. Firişte (d. 864/1459-60) was also a prolific author of mainly Hurufi works as well as a dictionary which is often misattributed to İbn Melek. İbn Melek’s son Meḥmed/Muḥammed also wrote a number of works in the same fields as his father, likewise using the name İbn Firişte or İbn Melek . As a result, there has been much confusion over which works belong to which family member.

Title

Sharḥ al-Wiqāya

شرح الوقايه

Notes

This is a commentary, sometimes attributed to İbn Melek’s son, Meḥmed/Muḥammed Firişte, on Burhān al-Shariʿa Maḥmūd ʿUbayd Allāh al-Maḥbūbī (d. 673/1274)'s Wiqāya al-riwāya fī masāʾil al-Hidāya, an abridgement of the Transoxanian Hanafi jurist, al-Marghīnānī’s Hidāya, a major Hanafi legal handbook. In İbn Melek’s introduction of the commentary, it is noted that İbn Melek’s son Meḥmed/Muḥammed Firişte completed the work based on the draft copies made by his father who was unable to finish it due to illness.

The place of composition is Tire (Turkey) in the Aydınid realm (Western Anatolia)

Main language of text

Arabic

Bibliography

Studies

Akün, Ömer Faruk. "Firishte-oghlu." EI, 2nd ed. 2 1965: 923-924.

Baktır, Mustafa. "İbn Melek." TDVİA. 20 1999: 175-176.

Muhtar, Cemal, ed. İki Kuran sözlüğü: Lugat-ı Ferişteoğlu ve Lugat-ı Kânûn-ı İlâhî. İstanbul: Marmara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi, 1993.

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Physical Description

Number of folios

249

Ruled lines

25

Seal

Kütübḫāne-i Cedīdī

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