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United Kingdom

City

London

Institution

British Library

Repository

St. Pancras

Collection

Asian and African Studies

Collection

Oriental Manuscripts

Shelfmark

Add. 5963

Contents

Ḥ̣ulwīyāt-i sulṭānī (Abū al-ḥasan Isma‘īl b. Ibrāhīm b. Isfandīyar b. Bāyazīd b. ‛Adīl b. ‛Amir Ya‛qūb b. Shams al-Dīn b. Yemen Jendār)

Author

Abū al-ḥasan Isma‘īl b. Ibrāhīm b. Isfandīyar b. Bāyazīd b. ‛Adīl b. ‛Amir Ya‛qūb b. Shams al-Dīn b. Yemen Jendār

ابو الحسن اسماعیل بن ابراهیم بن اسفنديار بن بایزید بن عدیل بن عمر یعقوب بن شمس الدین بن یمن جندار

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Abū al-ḥasan Isma‘īl b. Ibrāhīm b. Isfandīyar b. Bāyazīd b. ‛Adīl b. ‛Amir Ya‛qūb b. Shams al-Dīn b. Yemen Jendār, Member of the Kastamoni dynasty, 15th century (authorised)

ابو الحسن اسماعیل بن ابراهیم بن اسفنديار بن بایزید بن عدیل بن عمر یعقوب بن شمس الدین بن یمن جندار (variant)

Isma*il Beg (variant)

Title

Ḥ̣ulwīyāt-i sulṭānī

حلویات سلطانی

Notes

A vast compilation treating of the fundamental obligations of Islam, i.e. purification, prayer, alms, fast, and pilgrimage

In the preface the author shows what degree of instruction is obligatory to every Muslim, and quotes from the Qur’ān and Hadīs̲’s precepts relating to the acquisition of knowledge and promises of blessings to 'Ulamās. Anxious to secure for himself some of those blessings he compiled the present compendium, as he calls it, of the knowledge necessary to God's service and, from his inability to compose in Arabic, wrote it in Turkish

The work is principally based upon the Targhīb-i Ṣalāt (ترغیب صلوۀ) by Muḥammad b. Aḥmed Zāhid, محمد بن احمد زاهد; see (Haj_Khal_II, pp. 182) and (Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum, 1879-1883., pp. 807), but in the body of the work quoted on almost every page is based on the Ṣalāt-i Mesʻūdī (صلوۀ مسعودی), see (Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum, 1879-1883., pp. 41) and occasionally also the ʻUmdat al-Islām ( عمدة الإسلام ) and numerous other works, chiefly those of the Ḥanefī school, the latest of which appears to be the Muqaddimah-’i Quṭb al-Dīn (مقدمۀ قطب الدین) by Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad Nikīdī, d. 1418-19. Although belonging to the last-named school, the author refers also frequently to the opinions of Shafīʻ doctors

From the author's genealogy it appears that he belonged to the princely house of Kastamuni principality. His grandsire, Isfendiyar b. (Kuturum) Bayezid, was re-instated by Timur, 1336-1405, 805 AH [1402-1403 CE], in the principality from which his father had been dispossessed byBayezid I, Sultan of the Turks, ca. 1360-1403. Ibrahim, Isfendiyar* s son, succeeded his father 833 AH [1429-1430 CE], and was followed, at a date not ascertained, by his own son Isma*il Beg , the author of the present work. After surrendering Sinop (Turkey), the last remnant of his estate, to Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481, Isma*il Beg proceeded to Yenishehr (Turkey), which the conqueror assigned to him in exchange for Sinop (Turkey).

Main language of text

Ottoman Turkish

Bibliography

Catalogue

Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British museum. London: British Museum, 1888, 11-12.

Physical Description

Number of folios

403 ff

Dimensions of folio

width 21.6cm, height 30.5cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

19

Binding

Bound in stamped leather covers

History

Date of copy

Apparently in the 16th century