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Ḥāshiyya ʿalā Sharḥ Majmaʿ al-baḥrayn (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 Sharḥ Majmaʿ al-baḥrayn

حاشهيه على شرح مجمع البحرين

Notes

This is a gloss on Muẓaffar al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn al-Saʿātī al-Baʿlabakkī (d. 694/1294-5) (مظفر الدين احمد ابن السعاتي البعلبكي)'s commentary on his own work., the Majmaʿ al-baḥrayn wa multaqaʿn al-nayyirayn (مجمع البحرين و ملتقعن النيرين) (“The Confluence of Two Seas”), which is a Hanafi law compendium based primarily on al-Qudūrī (القدوري)'s Mukhtaṣar (مختصر) and Najm al-Dīn Abū Ḥafs ʿUmar al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142) (نجم الدين ابو حفس عمر النسفي)'s Manẓūma (منظومه). Aḳsarāyī's gloss, which exists in a unique manuscript, includes discussions on Shafiʿi objections to some aspects of Hanafi law.

The place of composition is Amasya or Aksaray (Turkey)

Copy made during the author's lifetime

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.

Özel, Ahmet. "İbnü’s-Sââtî, Muzafferüddin." TDVİA. 21 200: 190-191.

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Ankara Milli Kütüphane 798

Physical Description

Number of folios

94 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 17.8cm, height 25.7cm

Dimensions of written area

width 12.3cm, height 19.0cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

23

Hand

Copyist:ʽAbdullāh al-Qayṣarī ( عبدلله القیصری)

Seal

Waqf seal from Library of Sultan Murad I on 1r:

History

Date of copy

14th. century