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Turkey

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Çorum Hasan Paşa İl Halk Kütüphanesi

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no. 3764

Contents

Work 3: Badr al-wāʿiẓīn wa ẓuhr al-ʿābidīn (Ferişteoğlu Meḥmed bin ʿAbdüllaṭīf)

LOC subject headings

Islam (Prayers and devotions)

Author

Ferişteoğlu Meḥmed bin ʿAbdüllaṭīf

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

Badr al-wāʿiẓīn wa ẓuhr al-ʿābidīn

بدرنايلوﺍﻋﻆوظهرالعابدين

Notes

This religious work provides information on basic Islamic practices, doctrines and sacred months and days. It consists of twenty sections (majlis) interspersed with verse, Quranic verses, hadith selections, and anecdotes. There is confusion over whether this work should be attributed to İbn Melek or his son Muḥammed.

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

Main language of text

Arabic

Number of folios

Date of copy

Bibliography

Studies

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