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Country

Turkey

City

İstanbul

Institution

Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi

Collection

Ali Emiri Tıb

Shelfmark

259

Contents

Teshīl fī’ṭ-ṭibb (Ḥācı Paşa)

Author

Ḥācı Paşa

حاجي پاشا

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Celālüddīn Ḫıżır b. ʿAlī al-Ḫaṭṭāb al-Ḳonevī

جلال الدين خضر بن علي الخطّاب القونوي

Hacı Paşa, -1423? (authorised)

Celâleddin Hızır bin Ali, -1423? (variant)

Celâlüddin Hızır, -1423? (variant)

Celâlüddin Hızır bin Aliyü'l-Hattâb, -1423? (variant)

Celâlüddin Hızır bin Hâce Ali el-Konevî summeʼl-Aydinı̂ (variant)

D̲j̲alāl al-Dīn Khiḍr b. ʻAlī, -1423? (variant)

Hacı Paşa, d. 1423? (variant)

Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ī Pas̲h̲a, -1423? (variant)

Ḥājjī Bāshā, -1423? (variant)

Ḥājjī Pāshā, -1423? (variant)

Hekim Hacı Paşa, -1423? (variant)

Hızır bin Ali, -1423? (variant)

Konyalı Hacı Paşa, -1423? (variant)

Biographical notes

Born in Konya, Ḥācı Paşa was educated in Cairo where he studied the religious sciences with the famous Hanafi scholar al-Bābartī (ca. 1310-1384) and medicine at the Manṣūriyya medical complex. In 1370 [1370 CE] he travelled to Ayasuluk in the western Aegean region of Anatolia and entered the service of the Aydınid ruler, Faḫreddīn ʿİsā Bey (r. ca. 760s-789/1360s-1389). Under ʿİsā Bey, Ḥācı Paşa served as qadi, madrasa professor, and court physician, and authored medical texts and religious works. We know nothing about Ḥācı Paşa’s whereabouts and activities following Bayezid I’s deposition of the Aydınid ruler, ʿİsā Bey in 1389 AH [1389 CE]. Although we do not know the date of Ḥācı Paşa’s death, he continued to compose works well into the early years of Murad II’s reign.

Title

Teshīl fī’ṭ-ṭibb

Notes

According to A. Süheyl Ünver, Ḥācı Paşa compiled the Teshīl in 1408 [1408 CE], when he no longer had the support of a patron. Known sometimes under the name of Teysīr, the Teshīl is an abbreviated version of the author’s Münteḫab-i şifāʾ, and its conciseness may explain the its greater popularity vis-à-vis the Münteḫab-i şifāʾ. The Teshīl retains, with minor modifications, more or less the same introduction as that of the Münteḫab-i şifāʾ, adopting the same structure of three sections (baḫş), and much of the same wording throughout the text. The Teshīl ends abruptly, indicating that Ḥācı Paşa may have never completed it.

Seems to contain additional work(s), with a verse section on food and plants beginning the codex

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Studies

Akpınar, Cemil. "Ḥācı Paşa." TDVİA. 14 1996: 492-6.

Kâhya, Esin. "Konyalı Bir Hekim, Hacı Paşa." Türk-İslām Medeniyeti. 5 2008: 37-46.

Yıldız, Sara Nur. "From Cairo to Ayasuluk: Ḥācı Paşa and the transmission of Islamic learning to western Anatolia in the late 14th century." Journal of Islamic Studies. 25, no. 3 2014: 263-293.

Ünver, A. Süheyl. "Hacı Paşa." İslam Ansiklopedisi. 5 1987: 28-30.

Physical Description

Number of folios

199 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 15.5cm, height 24.5cm

Dimensions of written area

width 12cm, height 20cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

15

History

Date of copy

20th. century