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Turkey

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Istanbul

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Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi

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Futūḥ al-shām (Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 748-823)

Author

Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 748-823

أبو عبد الله محمد بن عمر بن واقد الأسلمي الواقدي

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Ebu Abdullah Muhammed b. Ömer b. Vakıd el-Eslemi el-Vakıdi

Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 748-823 (authorised)

Al-Vāqidī, Muḥammad bin ʻUmar, 747 or 748-823 (variant)

Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Wāqidī, 747 or 748-823 (variant)

Vāqidī, Muḥammad bin ʻUmar al-, 747 or 748-823 (variant)

Wákidy, Aboo ʻAbd Ollah Mohammad bin Omar, 747 or 748-823 (variant)

Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 8-823 (variant)

‏الواقدى، محمّد بن عمر،‏, ‏747 or 748-823 (variant)

واقدي، محمد بن عمر (variant)

واقدي، محمد بن عمر،, ‪823-8 or 747‬ (variant)

‏واقدى، محمّد بن عمر،‏, ‏747 or 748-823 (variant)

Biographical notes

Attributed

Author

Darīr, active 14th century

مسطفی ضرير بن یوسف بن عمر ارزرومی

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Musṭafá Ḍarīr b. Yūsuf b. ‘Umar Erzurūmī

Mustafa bin Yusuf bin Ömer

Darîr, active 14th century (authorised)

Darîr, 14th cent (variant)

Darîr, Mustafa, active 14th century (variant)

Erzurumlu Darîr, active 14th century (variant)

Kadı Darîr, active 14th century (variant)

Mustafa bin Yusuf bin Ömer, active 14th century (variant)

Biographical notes

A Turkish poet, author and translator who lived in the second half of the 14th century [1350-1399 CE]. Most of the information about his life comes from the prefaces written in the works he has authored and translated (especially ). He was apparently born blind (ḍarīr) in the Anatolian city of Erzurum (Turkey) where he studied. It was probably in his city of birth where he composed his version of the classic Yūsuf va Zulaykhā (يوسف و زليخا), which is important as an early example of old Anatolian Turkish. In 779 AH [1377 CE], he left for Egypt after some political instability arose in Erzurum (Turkey). He won the sympathy of the young Sultan al-Manṣūr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī, Sultan of Egypt, r. 1376–1382 and especially of the atabeg and future sultan Barqūq, Sultan of Egypt, 1340 or 1341-1399. In Egypt he begun the translation of the Sīrat al-Nabī (سيرة النبي) based on the version by Bakrī , Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh of the classic work by the same title of Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq, -approximately 768. This work begun to be prepared by order of al-Manṣūr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī, Sultan of Egypt, r. 1376–1382 but because of the removal of the Sultan it was presented in 790 AH [1388 CE] to the new ruler Barqūq, Sultan of Egypt, 1340 or 1341-1399. Musṭafá Ḍarīr b. Yūsuf b. ‘Umar Erzurūmī moved with his family to Alexandria (Egypt) before embarking back to Anatolia to settle for four years in Karaman. For unknown reasons he left the city and travelled to Aleppo (Syria) where he was in 796 AH [1393 CE] to present his work Futūḥ al-shām (فتوح الشام) to the amir of the city. It has been suggested that his work Yüz Hadis ve Yüz Hikâye was also composed in Aleppo (Syria) at the request of Emir Çolpan. All his works contain pieces of poetry that are believed to be of his own authorship. His date of death is unknown and there is no information about his life in Syria after 796 AH [1393 CE].

Title

Futūḥ al-shām

فتوح الشام

Notes

This is a Turkish translation of the original Arabic work by Wāqidī , Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 748-823 . The work describes the Arab conquest of Damascus and the surrounding areas during the reigns of the caliphs Abū Bakr, -634 and ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, -644. The work is in three volumes.

Composed in Aleppo in 796 AH [1393 CE]

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

ALTUN, Nesrin. "Erzurumlu Darîr’in Fütûhu’ş-Şâm Tercümesi." Yayımlanmamış Doktora Tezi, Marmara Üniversitesi, Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, 1996. (2 Cilt)

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İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 135

Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi 891

Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi 3174

Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi 434

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 4286

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 3327

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 3328

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1866

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 133

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 134

Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi 1371

Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi 1373

Physical Description

Number of folios

333 ff.

History

Date of copy

possibly 17th. century