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Country

Turkey

Collection

Azmi Bilgin Private Collection

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Eniŝü’l-Celîs (Qāsım bin Seyd̂i el-Ḥāfıẓ Anḳarî, active 1456)

Author

Qāsım bin Seyd̂i el-Ḥāfıẓ Anḳarî, active 1456

قاسم بن سيدي الحافظ انقري

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Ḳāsım bin Seyd̂i el-Ḥāfıẓ Anḳarî, active 1456 (authorised)

Anḳarî, Ḳāsım bin Seyd̂i el-Ḥāfıẓ, active 1456 (variant)

Ḳāsım bin Seyd̂i el-Ḥāfıẓ Anḳarî, fl. 1456 (variant)

Biographical notes

Nothing is known of the life of this author beyond the fact that he seems to have been associated with the court of Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451.

Title

Eniŝü’l-Celîs

انيس الجليس

Notes

This short work is one of the earliest Turkish works of advice literature. According to the preface, it was translated into Turkish by Qāsım bin Seyd̂i el-Ḥāfıẓ Anḳarî, active 1456 from a Persian version which had been composed by Hacı b. Ismail Tebrizi, حاجي بن اسمعيل تبريزي. The latter had himself translated it into Persian from an Arabic original. The Turkish translation was made on the request of Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451.

Date of composition 824-855 [1421-1451 CE]

Patron: Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451

Description in (Ankarî, Ḳāsim b. Seydi el-Ḥâfiz. Eniŝü’l-Celîs. Edited by Bilgin, Azmi. Istanbul: 2009., pp. 21-22)

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Ankarî, Ḳāsim b. Seydi el-Ḥâfiz. Eniŝü’l-Celîs. Edited by Bilgin, Azmi. Istanbul: 2009.

Studies

Ankarî, Ḳāsim b. Seydi el-Ḥâfiz. Eniŝü’l-Celîs. Edited by Bilgin, Azmi. Istanbul: 2009.

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Berlin Staatsbibliothek 64

Physical Description

Number of folios

52 ff.

History

Date of copy

15th. century