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Country

United Kingdom

City

London

Institution

British Library

Repository

St. Pancras

Collection

Oriental Manuscripts

Shelfmark

Add. 7874

Contents

Anvār al-‛ashiqīm (Ahmet Bican, 15th cent.)

Author

Ahmet Bican, 15th cent.

احمد بيجان

Show other names

Yāzijī Oghli Aḥmad Bījān

Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican

Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (authorised)

Ahmed Bican, active 15th century (variant)

Ahmed Bijan, active 15th century (variant)

Ahmet Bican, 15th cent (variant)

Bican, Ahmet, active 15th century (variant)

Bidøjøan, Aḥmet, active 15th century (variant)

Bijan, Ahmed, active 15th century (variant)

Yaz♯łc♯łoglu Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (variant)

Yaz♯łc♯łzade Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (variant)

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Biographical notes

The early Ottoman mystic and author of religious and apocalyptic works, Yazıcıoğlu Aḥmed, d. after 1465, was the son of Yazıcı Ṣāliḥ b. Süleymān, a clerk employed in the Ottoman government, and younger brother of Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, d. 855/1451. Born in a village outside of Malkara (Tekirdağ, Turkey), he later settled in Gelibolu (Turkey) where he composed his works during the reigns of Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451 and Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481. Yazıcıoğlu Aḥmed Bīcān was a disciple of Hacı Bayram Veli, -1429 the founder of the Bayramīyah order.

Title

Anvār al-‛ashiqīm

انوار العاشقین

Notes

A standard work of Muslim mysticism

Main language of text

Ottoman Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Bican, Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed. Envar ül-âşikîn. Istanbul: Şirket-i Ṣaḥḥāfiyye-i ʻos̲māniyye maṭbaʻası, 1900.

Catalogue

Flügel, Gustav Leberecht. Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen Handschriften der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hofbibliothek zu Wien. Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königliche Hofbibliothek, 1967, 449.

Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British museum. London: British Museum, 1888, 17-18.

Physical Description

Number of folios

238 ff

Dimensions of folio

width 19.1cm, height 27.9cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

19

Decoration

Gold-ruled margins

Addition

Two leaves at the beginning and one at the end have been supplied by a later hand

History

Date of copy

Apparently 16th century