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Istanbul

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Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa Koleksiyonu

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92-18757

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Tafsīr Gharīb al-Qur’ān (Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr,‏ active 1261‏)

Author

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr,‏ active 1261‏

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محمد بن ابي بكر الرازي

Abū ‘Abd Allāh Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr b. ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Rāzī

ابو عبدالله زين الدين محمد بن ابي بكر بن عبدالقادر الرازي

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261 (authorised)

Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī, active 1261 (variant)

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, fl. 1261 (variant)

رازي، محمد بن أبي بكر (variant)

محمد بن أبي بكر الرازي (variant)

Biographical notes

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr,‏ active 1261‏ محمد بن ابي بكر الرازي was born in Ray (Iran)‏ and educated in Bukhara (Uzbekistan)‏‏ and Samarqand (Uzbekistan)‏. He may have fled west because of the Mongol advance, coming first to Mardin (Turkey)‏, where he wrote several works, and seems to have received Artuqid patronage. At an unknown point he came to Konya (Turkey) where he was associated with the circle of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq,‏ -1273 or 1274, ‏ صدر الدين القونوي. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, including language and lexicography, tafsir and Sufism. His death date is unknown, but in Konya (Turkey) in 667 AH [1268-1269 CE] he copied Ghazzālī‏’s al-Wajīz () (). An audition note in a manuscript of Ibn al-Athīr, Majd al-Dīn al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad 1149-1209‏’s Jāmi‘ al-Uṣūl () from the Khalidiyya library in Jerusalem‏ dated 666 AH [1267-1268 CE] shows he obtained an ijāza in Konya (Turkey) from Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq,‏ -1273 or 1274‏ صدر الدين القونوي for the work.

His nisba is also given in one ms as al-Shīrāzī (3a). This seems to be a mistake

Title

Tafsīr Gharīb al-Qur’ān

تفسير غريب القرآن

Notes

The work deals with Qur’anic vocabulary, based on the works of Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād,‏ ‎ -1003?‏ and Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar,‏ 1075-1144‏.

Date of composition:Jumada I, 663 [1264-1265 CE]

Bibliography

Editions

al-Rāzī, Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr. Tafsīr al-Rāzī al-musammā bi-Unmūdhaj jalīl fī asʼila wa-ajwiba min gharāʼib āy al-tanzīl. Edited by al-Daya, Muhammad Ridwan. Beirut: Dar al-Fikr al-Mu ‘asir, 1990.

Studies

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902, 383.

Elmalı, Hüseyin. "Zeynüddin Muhammed b. Ebû Bekr er-Râzî: Hayatı, Eserleri ve Tefsiru Garibi’l-Kur’âni’l-Azim’i." Dicle Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 9 1995: 31-65.

Elmalı, Hüseyin. "Razi, Muhammed b. Ebu Bekir." TDVİA. 34 2007: 487-8.

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Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi 92-18757

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 109

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 124

Physical Description

Number of folios

267

Dimensions of folio

width 17.5cm, height 25cm

Dimensions of written area

width 11.5cm, height 19cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

23