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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Nuruosmaniye Yazma Eser KÜtüphanesi

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4896

Contents

Work 6: Maqāṣid-i Nājiyya (Yār ‘Alī b. Siyāvush al-Divrīkī (Active late 14th-early 15th C.))

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Author

Yār ‘Alī b. Siyāvush al-Divrīkī (Active late 14th-early 15th C.)

يار علي بن سياوش الدوركي

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Yār ‘Alī Shīrāzī

يار علي الشيرازي

Yār ‘Alī b. Siyāvush al-Divrīkī , Active late 14th-early 15th C. (authorised)

يار علي بن سياوش الدوركي (variant)

Yār ‘Alī Shīrāzī (variant)

يار علي الشيرازي (variant)

Biographical notes

Active late 14th-early 15th C [1320-1420 CE]. Died in Bursa in 814 AH [1411 CE] (1a f.). Yār ‘Alī was a confidant of and shaykh al-Islam to Qadi Burhan al-Din Ahmad of Sivas . He was also part of the circle of ‘Abd al-Rahman Bistami. Yār ‘Alī’s works reflect the strong interest in Ibn ‘Arabi’s philosophy as interpreted by Sadr al-Din Qunawi that is typical of the period. An important overview of his intellectual interests is the majmu‘a in is hand preserved as , discussed by (Peacock, A.C.S.. "Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Anatolia." In Metaphysics and rulership in late fourteenth century Central Anatolia: Qadi Burhan al-Din of Sivas and his Iksir al-Sa’adat. Yɪldız, Sara Nur, ed. Würzburg: 2016, 101-136.).

Title

Maqāṣid-i Nājiyya

مقاصد ناجية

Notes

This Persian commentary on the Fusus al-Hikam of Ibn ‘Arabi appears only to survive in an Ottoman translation by ‘Abdülmecid Sivasi entitled Mekasid-i Envar-i Gaybiye ve Mesa’ id-i Ervah-i Tayyibe, مقاصد انوار غيبيه و مصاعد طيبه غيبيه (this is the form given in the Nuruosmaniye Ms, but the Süleymaniye catalogue gives the title Mekasid-i Envar-i ‘Ayniye)

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

75-152 ff.

Bibliography

Studies

Karataş, Hasan. "The city as historical actor: the urbanization and Ottomanization of the Halvetiyye Sufi order in the city of Amasya in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." PhD dissertation, University of California, 2011.

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

Taşköprülü-zade, and Ahmed Subhi Furat. "al-Shaqā’iq al-Nu‘māniyya fi ‘Ulamā’ al-Dawla al-‘Uthmāniyya." Istanbul: 1985, 36-36. (an exceedingly brief notice)

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Bayezit Devlet Kütüphanesi 1855

History

Date of copy

20th. century