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Münteḫāb-i şifā’ (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

Münteḫāb-i şifā’

منتخب شفاء

Notes

Ḥācı Paşa’s Münteḫāb-i şifā’ is a simplified, abbreviated and vernacularized version of his Arabic medical works, generally following the structure of Ibn Sînâ’s Qânûn. This practical therapeutic compendium is meant to assist those who are not expert in medicine in the absence of a trained physician, as Ḥācı Paşa states in the introduction. The work consists of three sections or baḫş: 1) a brief summary of medical theory in one folio followed by a discussion of regimen sanitatis, or the maintenance of health, with advice on diet, exercise and rest, sleeping and waking, repletion and excretion, as well as bathing, temperate use of hot springs, sexual relations, excesses, convalescing, pregnancy, drug treatment, bloodletting, steam therapies, and the interpretation of good and bad symptoms. Section two discusses the different humoral characteristics of and medicinal treatments provided by basic food such as breads, meat, oils, milk, yogurt, cheese, grains and seeds, dried fruits (figs and dates), soups, and sweets. The bulk of the work, however, falls in section three which provides sixty-two sections on different diseases, illnesses, and disorders, following the traditional head-to-toe order and giving their causes, symptoms and treatment with medicinal substances (mu‘ālece). Recipes for different ma‘cûn (electuary) are provided as well as information on bloodletting.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Celālüddin Hızır (Hacı Paşa), . "Müntahab-ı Şifā I. Giriş-Metin." Önler, Zafer, ed. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1990.

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.

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Physical Description

Number of folios

136 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 14.2cm, height 20.2cm

Dimensions of written area

width 8.2cm, height 15cm

History

Date of copy

20th. century