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Ḥāshiyya ʿalā’l-Kashshāf (Cemāleddīn Meḥmed ibn Meḥmed el-Aḳsarāyī (ca. 1314-ca. 1389))

Author

Cemāleddīn Meḥmed ibn Meḥmed el-Aḳsarāyī (ca. 1314-ca. 1389)

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Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqsarā'ī

جمال‌‌ الدین محمدابن محمدالاقسرايي

Cemāleddīn Meḥmed Aksarāyī, ca. 1314-ca. 1389 (authorised)

جمال‌‌ الدین محمد اقسرايي (variant)

Biographical notes

Cemāleddīn Meḥmed ibn Meḥmed el-Aḳsarāyī (ca. 1314-ca. 1389), a descendent of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) according to Ottoman sources, was born in and died in Aksaray, a city under Karamanid rule at the time. Sometime in the 1350 [1350 CE]s or 1360 [1360 CE]s he was appointed qadi of Amasya and professor at the dār al-ʿilm(دارالعلم) madrasa of Amasya by the amīr(أمير) of Amasya, Ḥācı Şadgeldi Paşa (d. 1381)(حاجي شادکلدي پاشا). He was later appointed as the qadiʿaskar (kadıasker) (قاضي عسكر) of Amasya by Ḥācı Şadgeldi Paşa. At some point later in the 1370 [1370 CE]s he returned to the Karamanid realm and was appointed as the qadi of Aksaray by the Karamanid ruler ʿAlāʾeddīn Bey (علاءالدين بك), and professor (mudarris) at the Zincirli (Müselsile) Medrese in Aksaray. There is a difference of opinions regarding his death date: according to Ottoman sources, he died 791 AH [1388-1389 CE], whereas Brockelmann gives the date of 1377 [1377 CE]. Molla Fenārī (ملا فناري) studied with him before going to Egypt for further education. He is not to be confused with Cemālī el-Ḫalvetī el-Aḳsarāyī (d. 899/1493) (جمالي الخلوتي الاقسرايي), the author of some twenty works dealing with mystical topics, including a forty ḥadīth commentary.

Title

Ḥāshiyya ʿalā’l-Kashshāf

حاشية على كشّاف

Notes

This is a commentary on al-Zamakhsharī (d. 538/1144)'s seminal Qurʾan commentary, the Kashshāf (كشّاف). The Khwarazmian Muʿtazilite , Abū’l-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī (ابوالقاسم محمودابن عمرالزمخشري)'s (also called Jār Allāh(جارالله)) al-Kashshāf ʿan Ḥaqāʾiq ghawāmiḍ al-Tanzīl (الكشاف عن حقائق غوامض التنزيل) (“The Discoverer of the Truths of the Hidden Things of revelation”) is an exhaustive Qurʾan commentary which provides deep linguistic and grammatical analysis of its verses.

Main language of text

Arabic

Bibliography

Studies

Görkaş, İrfan. Cemaleddin Aksarayī’nin Hayatı-Eserleri. Aksaray: Aksaray Vakfı Yayınları, 1997.

Gülcan, Genç. "Muhammed B. Aksarayī, Teferrücü’l-Ümerā (Dil İncelemesi-Metin-Sözlük)." PhD Dissertation, İstanbul Üniversitesi, 2012.

Mélikoff, Irene. "Djamāl al-Din Aḳsarayī." EI2. 2 1965: 419-20.

Öz, Mustafa. "Cemāleddin Aksarāyī (ö. 791/1388-89 [?])." TDVİA. 7 1993: 308-9.

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Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 422

Physical Description

Number of folios

28 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 13.5cm, height 18.2cm

Dimensions of written area

width 9.3cm, height 13.0cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

21

Seal

Waqf seal of Velīyu'd-dīn Cārullāh Efendī (ولي الدين جارالله افندي), 1115 AH [1703-1704 CE]

History

Date of copy

Late 14th century