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al-Tarjīḥ fi sharḥ al-Tawḍīḥ (Qāḍī Burhān al-Dīn Aḥmad, 1345- c.1398)

Author

Qāḍī Burhān al-Dīn Aḥmad, 1345- c.1398

قاضي برهان الدین احمد

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Kadi Burhaneddin, 1344-1398

قاضي برهان الدين

Biographical notes

Burhaneddin was born into a scholarly family in Kayseri; on his mother’s side he claimed kinship to the Seljuk dynasty. After studying in Syria and Egypt he returned to Anatolia in 1365 [1365 CE], entering the service of the ruler of Kayseri, the Eretnid Mehmet Beg, and was in 780 AH [1378 CE]appointed vizier toMehmet Beg’s successor Alaeddin Ali Beg. In 783 AH [1381 CE], he proclaimed himself ruler, with Sivas as his capital. His rule was spent in frequent wars with the Ottomans and Timur, 1336-1405 , during which time he also pursued his literary activities and composed the two Arabic prose works which have come done to us. We are uniquely well informed about his rule owing to the detailed panegyric biography by his courtier ‘Aziz b. Ardashir Astarabadi . However, he is best known as one of the earliest Turkish poets to try to emulate the Persian ghazal, even if his Dīvān evidently had a limited circulation.

Title

al-Tarjīḥ fi sharḥ al-Tawḍīḥ

الترجیح في شرح التوضيح

Notes

The work comprises Burhaneddin’s commentary on Taftāzānī’s Tawḍīḥ al-Talwīḥ, a rebuttal of the Bukharan scholar Sadr al-Sharī‘a al-Thānī’s work al-Talwīḥ.

The place of composition is Sivas during the years 798-9 [1395-1397 CE].

Main language of text

Arabic

Bibliography

Studies

Apaydın, H. Yunus. "Kadı Burhaneddin’in Tercihu’t-Tavzih adlı Eseri." Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 6 1996: 33-45.

Astarābādī, ‘Aziz b. Ardashir. Bazm u Razm. Edited by Rifat, Kilisli Muallim. Istanbul: 1928.

Baktır, Mustafa. "Kadı Burhaneddin Ahmed’in ilmi ve hukuki yönü." In XIII ve XIV yüzyıllarda Kayseri’de Bilim ve Din Sempozyumu. Kayseri: Kayseri Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kültür Müdürlüğü, 1996, 143-52.

Chittick, William C.. "Sultan Burhān al-Dīn’s Sufi correspondence." Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 73 1981: 33-45.

Peacock, A.C.S.. "Metaphysics and rulership in late fourteenth century Central Anatolia: Qadi Burhan al-Din of Sivas and his Iksīr al-Sa’ādāt." In Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Anatolia. Würzburg: 2016, 101-136.

Rypka, J.. "Burhān al-Dīn, Kāḍı Aḥmad." Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition. 1, [n.d.]: 1327-8.

Taşköprülü-zade, . al-Shaqā’iq al-Nu‘māniyya fi ‘Ulamā’ al-Dawla al-‘Uthmāniyya. Edited by Furat, Ahmed Subhi. Istanbul: 1985, 29-30. (mainly reliant on Ibn Ḥajar, al-Durar al-Kāmina)

Yücel, Yaşar. Kadi Burhaneddin Ahmed ve devleti: (1344-1398). Ankara,: 1970.

Özaydın, Abdülkerim and Hatice Tören. "Kadı Burhaneddin." TDVİA. XXI 2001: 74-7.

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Physical Description

Number of folios

217 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 18.1cm, height 26.8cm

Dimensions of written area

width 13cm, height 19.3cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

19

History

Date of copy

14th. century

Provenance

Bought by al-Hājj Ibrāhīm al-Shakurī al-Tarāblusī, الحاج ابراهيم الشكوري الطرابلسي from bookseller Ahmad Efendi, احمد افندي الصحاف الواعظ in Constantinople, in 1012 AH [1603 CE]