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Turkey

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Istanbul

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

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Denizli

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Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ (Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr,‏ active 1261‏)

Author

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr,‏ active 1261‏

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محمد بن ابي بكر الرازي

Abū ‘Abd Allāh Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr b. ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Rāzī

ابو عبدالله زين الدين محمد بن ابي بكر بن عبدالقادر الرازي

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261 (authorised)

Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī, active 1261 (variant)

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, fl. 1261 (variant)

رازي، محمد بن أبي بكر (variant)

محمد بن أبي بكر الرازي (variant)

Biographical notes

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr,‏ active 1261‏ محمد بن ابي بكر الرازي was born in Ray (Iran)‏ and educated in Bukhara (Uzbekistan)‏‏ and Samarqand (Uzbekistan)‏. He may have fled west because of the Mongol advance, coming first to Mardin (Turkey)‏, where he wrote several works, and seems to have received Artuqid patronage. At an unknown point he came to Konya (Turkey) where he was associated with the circle of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq,‏ -1273 or 1274, ‏ صدر الدين القونوي. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, including language and lexicography, tafsir and Sufism. His death date is unknown, but in Konya (Turkey) in 667 AH [1268-1269 CE] he copied Ghazzālī‏’s al-Wajīz () (). An audition note in a manuscript of Ibn al-Athīr, Majd al-Dīn al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad 1149-1209‏’s Jāmi‘ al-Uṣūl () from the Khalidiyya library in Jerusalem‏ dated 666 AH [1267-1268 CE] shows he obtained an ijāza in Konya (Turkey) from Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq,‏ -1273 or 1274‏ صدر الدين القونوي for the work.

His nisba is also given in one ms as al-Shīrāzī (3a). This seems to be a mistake

Title

Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ

مختار الصحاح

Notes

This work is an abridgement of Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād,‏ ‎ -1003?‏'s al-Ṣiḥāḥ (الصحاح), a lexicographical work, and is Rāzī’s most famous work.

The date of composition is c. 600-666 [-1268 CE] and the place of composition is unknown, perhaps Konya (Turkey) if 666 AH [1267-1268 CE] is actually date of composition as we know him to have been in the city at that time from the Khalidiyya ijaza.

Main language of text

Arabic

Bibliography

Editions

al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir. Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Bulaq: 1282 [1865].

al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir. maktabat al-Nuri. Damascus: 1987.

al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir. Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Edited by Khalaf al-Mawālī, Samīra. Beirut: al-Markaz al-ʻArabī lil-Thaqāfah wa-al-ʻUlūm, 1980?.

Studies

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902, 383.

Elmalı, Hüseyin. "Zeynüddin Muhammed b. Ebû Bekr er-Râzî: Hayatı, Eserleri ve Tefsiru Garibi’l-Kur’âni’l-Azim’i." Dicle Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 9 1995: 31-65.

Elmalı, Hüseyin. "Razi, Muhammed b. Ebu Bekir." TDVİA. 34 2007: 487-8.

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264

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1

History

Date of copy

17th.-18th. century