Baḥr al-‘ulūm
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- Country
- Turkey
- City
- Istanbul
- Institution
- Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi
- Collection
- Hasan Hüsnü Paşa
- Shelfmark
- 55
Contents
- Baḥr al-‘ulūm (‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī b. Yaḥyā al-Samarqandī)
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- Author
- ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī b. Yaḥyā al-Samarqandī
- علاء الدين علي بن يحيى السمرقندي
- Show other names
- Mughīth al-Dunyā wa’l-Dīn ‘Abd al-Karīm (authorised)
- (variant)
- Biographical notes
- The life of this scholar is attested in his semi-legendary Turkish Menakibname which survives in several 17th-18th century manuscripts with widely differing texts (surveyed in Mercan 2011). From the little factual information that we can glean, he was born in Samarqand and around 1428 [1428 CE] migrated to Larende (Karaman) in Anatolia. He is said to have played a role as an intermediary in the Karamanid-Ottoman conflict.
- Title
- Baḥr al-‘ulūm
- بحر العلوم
- Notes
- A Qur’anic commentary, containing extensive information on asbāb al-nuzūl and qirā’āt. The attribution to ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī b. Yaḥyā al-Samarqandī is disputed
- Main language of text
- Arabic
- Bibliography
- Studies
- Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Supplementband. Leiden: Brill, 1938, 278.
- Mercan, Ismail Hakkı. Şeyh Alâeddin Ali es-Semerkandî ve Menâkıb-namesi. Ankara: 2011.
- Yazıcı, İshak. "Bahrü’l-Ulûm." TDVİA. 4 1991: 517-8.
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- Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 67
- Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 106
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- 278 ff.
- Columns
- 1
History
- Date of copy
- 20th. century