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Country

Turkey

City

İstanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

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Mahmud Paşa

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369

Contents

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

Author

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

Show other names

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

Kashf al-Iʿrāb

كشف اللأراب

Notes

This work, which exists in a unique manuscript, is a commentary on the grammatical work on syntax, Lubb al-albāb fī’l-ʿilm al-iʿrāb (لبّ الالباب في العلم اللأراب), the authorship of which has been disputed. Turkish scholars, following Kātib Çelebī (كاتب جلبي), (Ḥājji Khalīfa, d. 1658 (حاجي خليفه)), erroneously consider the author to be Tāj al-Dīn al-Isfarāyīnī (d. 684/1285) (تاج الدين الأسفراييني) , whose work is actually entitled al-Lubāb fī al-naḥw (اللباب في النحو). Charles Rieu and Jan J. Witkam identify the author of the Lubb al-Albāb fī ʿilm al-Iʿrāb (لبّ الالباب في العلم اللأراب) as Shams al-Dīn al-Munʾim b. Muḥammad al-Barqūmīnī or al-Abarqūhī (d. end 7th/13th century) (شمس الدين المنئم بن محمد البرقوميني (الابرقوهي)), whose patron was the Ilkhanid financial minister, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Juvaynī (d. 683/1284) (شمس الدين محمد الجويني). al-Barqūmīnī's works is also sometimes confused with Nāṣir al-Dīn Abū Saʽīd al-Bayḍāwī (ناصرالدين ابو سعيدالبيضاوي )'s work of the same name.. The place of composition is Aksaray or Amasya.

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.

Rieu, Charles. Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the British museum. London: British Museum, 1894, 615-6.

Witkam, Jan Just, ed. Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden. Ter Lugt Press, 2007, 359-60.

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

Physical Description

Number of folios

146 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 17.0cm, height 25.5cm

Dimensions of written area

width 13.0cm, height 19.8cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

27

Seal

Waqf seal of Mahmut Paşa, -1474

History

Date of copy

15th Century

Provenance

Ex libris:Akmal b. Shaykh b. Muḥammad al-Falakābādī (اکمل ابن شیخ ابن محمد الفلکابادی )