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Turkey

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Istanbul

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Nuruosmaniye Yazma Eser KÜtüphanesi

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Nuruosmaniye

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Tercüme-i Tefsīr-i Ebü'l-Leys es-Semerḳandī (Ahmed Dâi, active 1387-1421)

Author

Ahmed Dâi, active 1387-1421

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Aḥmed-i Dāʿī

Ahmed Dâi, active 1387-1421 (authorised)

Ahmad Dâʻî, active 1387-1421 (variant)

Aḥmed bin İbrāhīm bin Muḥammed, active 1387-1421 (variant)

Ahmed Dâi, fl. 1387-1421 (variant)

Ahmed-i Dāʻī, active 1387-1421 (variant)

احمد داعى (variant)

Biographical notes

Aḥmed-i Dāʿī was a distinguished figure in early Ottoman literature. Renowned for his literary skills, Dāʿī was also a prolific writer. From his original works and translations we can infer that he had knowledge in various fields such as poetry, tafsir, astronomy, astrology, dream interpretation, language (Turkish, Arabic and Persian), and medicine. His father’s name is İbrāhīm ; his grandfather’s name is Meḥmed. Sources agree that Aḥmed-i Dāʿī is from the principality of Germiyān, but his date and place of birth are not certain. We can tell from his works that he lived during the reigns of Murād I (d. 791/1389), Yaʿḳūb II of Germiyān (d. 831/1428) , Emīr Süleymān (d. 813/1411) and Murād II (d. 855/1451). According to ʿĀlī and Sehī, he served as qadi in the principality of Germiyān for some time. Yaʿḳūb II took him under his patronage after the death of Germiyān prince Süleymān Şāh (d. 789/1387). Emīr Süleymān, who was known to be very generous to men of letters, probably took him under his patronage after the defeat of Yaʿḳūb II by Yıldırım and the subsequent Ottoman annexation of the Germiyān lands. Aḥmed-i Dāʿī dedicated his work Çeng-nāme, written in 808 AH [1406 CE], to Emīr Süleymān. In his Dīvān, he also wrote some poems in praise of Emīr Süleymān. After the death of Emīr Süleymān in 813 AH [1411 CE], Aḥmed-i Dāʿī began serving under the patronage of Çelebi Meḥmed (816/1413-824/1421), as is evident from a qasida that he wrote for the latter’s enthronement. Aḥmed-i Dāʿī dedicated his Persian Dīvān to Vezīr-i aʿẓām ʿOsmāncıḳlı Ḫalīl Pāşā (d. after 816/1413). After a period of low attention, he was finally accepted to the court as a tutor for Çelebi Meḥmed (816/1413-824/1421) son Murād II (824/1421-848/1444). He wrote his Arabic to Persian dictionary ʿUḳūdü’l-cevāhir for Murād II (824/1421-848/1444). After Çelebi Meḥmed (816/1413-824/1421) death in 824 [1421 CE], Murād II (824/1421-848/1444) took him under his patronage. He wrote Tercüme-i Tezkiretü’l-evliyā during this period, probably his last work. Aḥmed-i Dāʿī’s date of death is unknown. There is a mosque, a district and a hammam known by his name in Bursa . According to tradition, the tomb near the mosque known as Dāʿī Dede belongs to him.

Title

Tercüme-i Tefsīr-i Ebü'l-Leys es-Semerḳandī

ترجمه تفسير أبو الليث السمرقندي

Notes

The work is Dāʿī’s translation of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī’s (d. 373/983) Arabic tafsir. It is accepted to be the first tafsir of the Quran translated into Turkish in Anatolia. It is dedicated to Emīr Süleymān and written at the behest of Umūr Bey (d. 865/1461) son of Timūrṭāş Pāşā (d. 806/1404) . Beside the translation, Dāʿī also added his explanations to the work, as well as a muqaddima in verse. The manuscripts at the Istanbul University Library and Süleymaniye Library include this muqaddima. According to Abdulbaki Çetin, this work belongs not to Aḥmed-i Dāʿī but rather to Mūṣā b. Ḥacı Ḥüseyin İznikī who uses the term “dāʿī” (a well-wisher) as an adjective for himself.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Studies

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Physical Description

Number of folios

222 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

25

Hand

Copyist:İbrāhīm b. Yūsuf, إبراهيم بن يوسف

Seal

Waqf seal and record of 'Osmān III, عثمان الثالث on f. 1a

History

Date of copy

20th. century

Provenance

Seal of Laṭīf … İbrām Ḥanīf, لطيف إبراهيم حنيف ? on f. 1a