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Country

Turkey

City

İstanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi

Collection

Yazma Bağışlar

Shelfmark

3850

Contents

Work 3: Teshīl fī’ṭ-ṭibb (Ḥācı Paşa)

LOC subject headings

Turkish language To 1500

Medicine (Early works to 1800)

Author

Ḥācı Paşa

حاجي پاشا

Show other names

Celālüddīn Ḫıżır b. ʿAlī al-Ḫaṭṭāb al-Ḳonevī

جلال الدين خضر بن علي الخطّاب القونوي

Hacı Paşa, -1423? (authorised)

Celâleddin Hızır bin Ali, -1423? (variant)

Celâlüddin Hızır, -1423? (variant)

Celâlüddin Hızır bin Aliyü'l-Hattâb, -1423? (variant)

Celâlüddin Hızır bin Hâce Ali el-Konevî summeʼl-Aydinı̂ (variant)

D̲j̲alāl al-Dīn Khiḍr b. ʻAlī, -1423? (variant)

Hacı Paşa, d. 1423? (variant)

Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ī Pas̲h̲a, -1423? (variant)

Ḥājjī Bāshā, -1423? (variant)

Ḥājjī Pāshā, -1423? (variant)

Hekim Hacı Paşa, -1423? (variant)

Hızır bin Ali, -1423? (variant)

Konyalı Hacı Paşa, -1423? (variant)

Biographical notes

Born in Konya, Ḥācı Paşa was educated in Cairo where he studied the religious sciences with the famous Hanafi scholar al-Bābartī (ca. 1310-1384) and medicine at the Manṣūriyya medical complex. In 1370 [1370 CE] he travelled to Ayasuluk in the western Aegean region of Anatolia and entered the service of the Aydınid ruler, Faḫreddīn ʿİsā Bey (r. ca. 760s-789/1360s-1389). Under ʿİsā Bey, Ḥācı Paşa served as qadi, madrasa professor, and court physician, and authored medical texts and religious works. We know nothing about Ḥācı Paşa’s whereabouts and activities following Bayezid I’s deposition of the Aydınid ruler, ʿİsā Bey in 1389 AH [1389 CE]. Although we do not know the date of Ḥācı Paşa’s death, he continued to compose works well into the early years of Murad II’s reign.

Title

Teshīl fī’ṭ-ṭibb

Notes

According to A. Süheyl Ünver, Ḥācı Paşa compiled the Teshīl in 1408 [1408 CE], when he no longer had the support of a patron. Known sometimes under the name of Teysīr, the Teshīl is an abbreviated version of the author’s Münteḫab-i şifāʾ, and its conciseness may explain the its greater popularity vis-à-vis the Münteḫab-i şifāʾ. The Teshīl retains, with minor modifications, more or less the same introduction as that of the Münteḫab-i şifāʾ, adopting the same structure of three sections (baḫş), and much of the same wording throughout the text. The Teshīl ends abruptly, indicating that Ḥācı Paşa may have never completed it.

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

51v-191v

Bibliography

Studies

Akpınar, Cemil. "Ḥācı Paşa." TDVİA. 14 1996: 492-6.

Kâhya, Esin. "Konyalı Bir Hekim, Hacı Paşa." Türk-İslām Medeniyeti. 5 2008: 37-46.

Yıldız, Sara Nur. "From Cairo to Ayasuluk: Ḥācı Paşa and the transmission of Islamic learning to western Anatolia in the late 14th century." Journal of Islamic Studies. 25, no. 3 2014: 263-293.

Ünver, A. Süheyl. "Hacı Paşa." İslam Ansiklopedisi. 5 1987: 28-30.

Physical Description

Number of folios

191 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 9.8cm, height 14.7cm

Dimensions of written area

width 13.0cm, height 19.6cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

13

History

Date of copy

20th. century