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Yozgat

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Contents

Asʾila wa ajwiba (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

Asʾila wa ajwiba

Risāla fī Asʾila wa ajwiba ʽan ʽilm al-tafsīr wa al-ḥadīth

اسئله و اجوبه

Notes

A set of 171 questions and answers in two parts, with the first part dealing with questions on on Qur’an commentary (tafsīr (تفسير)), and the second part on ḥadīth (حديث). The work was prepared for the benefit of the amīr of Amasya (Turkey), Ḥācı Şadgeldi Paşa (d. 1381) (حاجي شادکلدي پاشا).

The place of composition is Amasya (Turkey)

Main language of text

Persian

Foliation

1v-40v

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.

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Bayezıt Devlet Kütüphanesi 5343

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 70

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 99

Physical Description

Number of folios

41 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 13.5cm, height 18.2cm

Dimensions of written area

width 9.5cm, height 13.8cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

17

Seal

Waqf of Baş Çavuş Ḫalīl Ağa (باش چاوش خلیل اغا), a resident of Yozgat.

History

Date of copy

17th century