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Kastamonu İl Halk Ktp.

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Manẓūm fıḳıh (Devletoğlu Yūsuf Balıkesrī (fl. 827/1424))

Author

Devletoğlu Yūsuf Balıkesrī (fl. 827/1424)

دولت اوغلى يوسف بفلق اسري

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Devletoğlu Yūsuf Balıkesrī, fl. 827/1424 (authorised)

دولت اوغلى يوسف بفلق اسري (variant)

Biographical notes

Nothing is known about Devletoğlu Yūsuf Balıkesrī other than that he was born in Balıkesir, in the northwestern Anatolia region of Marmara. He composed his only known work, Manẓūm fıḳıh, while he was 28 years old. Although Bilal Aktan identifies him as Yūsuf b. Hüseyin el-Kirmastī, one of the favorite students of Ḫocazāde Muṣliḥuddīn Efendi and a teacher of Mehmed II, this identification is highly doubtful.

Title

Manẓūm fıḳıh

منظوم فقه

Notes

Altough this verse Hanafi law manual written in Anatolian Turkish and dedicated to the Ottoman sultan Murad II (r. 821-848/1421-1444, 850-855/1446-1451) is often described as a translation of the Wiqāya, it in fact loosely paraphrases the Wiqāya, a major epitome of the well-known Hanafi manual of substantive law, the Burhān al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197)’s al-Hidāya fī Sharḥ al-Bidāya, a basic manual of Hanafi rites, observances, and law, the Hidāya has remained a central legal text for Hanafis. Manẓūm fıḳıh greatly resembles the Wiqāya, employing the same standard organizational format and imparting more or less the same legal information. As such, it conveys the essentials of Hanafi law in a simplified, easily memorizable verse format of rhymed couplets (mathnawī). It also includes passages not found in the Wiqāya, suggesting that Devletoğlu Yūsuf was more an author-compiler than translator. Since the author did not specify a name for his work, various titles have been attributed to it, such as Manẓūm fıḳıh, Terceme-i Viḳāye, Viḳāye tercümesi, Kitābu’l-beyān, and Murād-nāme.

Place of Composition: Western Anatolia or Thrace

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Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Aktan, Bilal. "Devletoğlu Yûsuf’un Vikâye Tercümesi (İnceleme-Metin-Dizin)." PhD, Erzurum: Erzurum Atatürk Üniversitesi, 2002.

Studies

Yıldız, Sara Nur. "A Hanafi Law Manual in the Vernacular: Devletoğlu Yūsuf Balıḳesrī’s Turkish Verse Adaptation of the Hidāya-Wiqāya Textual Tradition for the Ottoman Sultan Murad II (827/1424)." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. (in press).

Çelebioğlu, Amil. Türk Mesnevî Edebiyatı: 15 yy. kadar (Sultan II. Murad Devri) (824-855/1421-1451). Istanbul Kitabevi, 1999.

Özkan, Mustafa. "Devletoğlu Yusuf." Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi ( TDVİA). 9Istanbul: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Araştırmaları Merkezi (İSAM), 1996: 243-244.

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Physical Description

Number of folios

173 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

15

Seal

waqf seal in the name of El-ḥacc Ḥüseyin Ḥuḍurī

History

Date of copy

20th. century