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Ḥall al-Mūjaz (Cemāleddīn Meḥmed ibn Meḥmed el-Aḳsarāyī (ca. 1314-ca. 1389))

Author

Cemāleddīn Meḥmed ibn Meḥmed el-Aḳsarāyī (ca. 1314-ca. 1389)

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Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqsarā'ī

جمال‌‌ الدین محمدابن محمدالاقسرايي

Cemāleddīn Meḥmed Aksarāyī, ca. 1314-ca. 1389 (authorised)

جمال‌‌ الدین محمد اقسرايي (variant)

Biographical notes

Cemāleddīn Meḥmed ibn Meḥmed el-Aḳsarāyī (ca. 1314-ca. 1389), a descendent of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) according to Ottoman sources, was born in and died in Aksaray, a city under Karamanid rule at the time. Sometime in the 1350 [1350 CE]s or 1360 [1360 CE]s he was appointed qadi of Amasya and professor at the dār al-ʿilm(دارالعلم) madrasa of Amasya by the amīr(أمير) of Amasya, Ḥācı Şadgeldi Paşa (d. 1381)(حاجي شادکلدي پاشا). He was later appointed as the qadiʿaskar (kadıasker) (قاضي عسكر) of Amasya by Ḥācı Şadgeldi Paşa. At some point later in the 1370 [1370 CE]s he returned to the Karamanid realm and was appointed as the qadi of Aksaray by the Karamanid ruler ʿAlāʾeddīn Bey (علاءالدين بك), and professor (mudarris) at the Zincirli (Müselsile) Medrese in Aksaray. There is a difference of opinions regarding his death date: according to Ottoman sources, he died 791 AH [1388-1389 CE], whereas Brockelmann gives the date of 1377 [1377 CE]. Molla Fenārī (ملا فناري) studied with him before going to Egypt for further education. He is not to be confused with Cemālī el-Ḫalvetī el-Aḳsarāyī (d. 899/1493) (جمالي الخلوتي الاقسرايي), the author of some twenty works dealing with mystical topics, including a forty ḥadīth commentary.

Title

Ḥall al-Mūjaz

حلّ الموجز

Notes

The Ḥall al-Mūjaz (حلّ الموجز) (The Resolution of the Mūjaz(موجز)) is a commentary on Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفس) 's Mūjaz (موجَز) (alternatively Mūjiz (موجِز)), which is a radically abbreviated version of Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا‏)'s Qānūn (قانون). Aksarāyī states that he wrote the work for the benefit of students studying the Mūjaz (موجز), which served as the definitive reference guide for students of medicine as well as practicing physicians in the fourteenth century [1300-1399 CE]. Similar to the Mūjaz (موجز), the work consists of four sections (fann (فنّ)), with the first dealing with the theoretical basis of Galenic humoral medicine, the second with disease and therapeutics in general, the third with diseases according to organ, proceeding from head to foot, and the fourth section on fevers and contagious diseases. It provides the full text of the Mūjaz via verbatim quotations prefaced by the statement “the author said,” which is accompanied by explanations, clarifications, and additions prefaced by the phrase “I say.” According to Nahyan Fancy, the Ḥall al-Mūjaz (حلّ الموجز) provides an overview of the major disagreements among physicians, and between physicians and philosophers over the function of the liver in generating blood and the vital faculty or psychic spirit (al-quwwa al-ḥayawāniyya (القوّة الحيوانية), or pneuma), ), a topic which is absent in the Mūjaz (موجز) (although discussed and rejected by Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس) in his commentary of >Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا‏)’s Qānūn (قانون)). The place of composition is Aksaray or Amasya.

Main language of text

Arabic

Bibliography

Editions

ʿAzabawī, ʿAbd al-Karīm, ed. Kitāb al-Mūjaz fī’l-ṭibb. Cairo: Wizārat al-awqāf, 1986.

Studies

Fancy, Nahyan. "A Preliminary Examination of Ibn al-Nafīs’s Shurūḥ, the Mūjaz and Subsequent Commentaries on the Mūjaz." Oriens. 41 2013: 525-545.

Görkaş, İrfan. Cemaleddin Aksarayī’nin Hayatı-Eserleri. Aksaray: Aksaray Vakfı Yayınları, 1997.

Gülcan, Genç. "Muhammed B. Aksarayī, Teferrücü’l-Ümerā (Dil İncelemesi-Metin-Sözlük)." PhD Dissertation, İstanbul Üniversitesi, 2012.

Mélikoff, Irene. "Djamāl al-Din Aḳsarayī." EI2. 2 1965: 419-20.

Öz, Mustafa. "Cemāleddin Aksarāyī (ö. 791/1388-89 [?])." TDVİA. 7 1993: 308-9.

Ünver, Süheyl. "Sheykh Jemaluddin Aksarayi, Mujez Sherhi and other works." Journal of the Regional Cultural Institute [Tehran]. 2, no. 3 1969: 167-176.

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Physical Description

Number of folios

227 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

21

Hand

Copyist:Muṭahher Bāherzī (مطهر باهرزي)

Seal

Waqf seal of Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa

History

Place

Shīrāz (Iran)

Date of copy

15th. century

Provenance

Ex libris:Muṭahher Bāherzī (مطهر باهرزي)

Ex libris:Ḥüseyn b. Şeyḫ Sinān (حسين بن شيخ سنان)