Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261
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Biographical notes
Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn
Abī Bakr, active 1261 محمد بن ابي بكر
الرازي was born in Ray (Iran) and educated in Bukhara (Uzbekistan) and Samarqand
(Uzbekistan) . He may have fled west because of the Mongol advance, coming
first to Mardin
(Turkey) , where he wrote several works, and seems to have received
Artuqid patronage. At an unknown point he came to Konya (Turkey) where he was associated
with the circle of Ṣadr al-Dīn
al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274,
صدر الدين القونوي . He wrote on a wide range of subjects,
including language and lexicography, tafsir and Sufism. His death date is unknown,
but in Konya
(Turkey) in 667 AH [1268-1269 CE] he copied
Ghazzālī ’s al-Wajīz () ( ). An audition
note in a manuscript of Ibn al-Athīr, Majd
al-Dīn al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad 1149-1209 ’s Jāmi‘ al-Uṣūl () from
the Khalidiyya library in
Jerusalem dated 666 AH [1267-1268 CE] shows he obtained an ijāza in Konya (Turkey) from Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273
or 1274 صدر الدين القونوي for the
work.
His nisba is also given in one ms as al-Shīrāzī (3a ). This seems to be a
mistake
Bibliography
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Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Rāzī, active 1261
Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, fl. 1261
رازي، محمد بن أبي بكر
محمد بن أبي بكر الرازي
Manuscripts by this author
Asās al-Qurʼān al-Majīd fī ajwibat al-Furqān al-saʻīd
As’ilat al-Qur’ān
This manuscript deals with difficult words in the Qur'an. It's a
lexicographical work, and it's known to be composed before 663 the date of
composition of the Gharīb al-Qur’ānغريب القران, which refers to it in several
places.
Daqa’iq al-Haqa’iq
Lost or spurious work
Esile ve Ecvibe
Ḥāshiyat al-Kashshāf
Kitāb Muntakhab Haqā'iq al-Sullami fi al-ta'wil
Kitāb al-amthāl wa-l-ḥikam
The work consists of proverbs found in poetry, mainly quotations from Arabic
classics such as Abū Nuwās
approximately 756-approximately 810 , Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 915 or
916-965 , and Ibn al-Rūmī,
836-896 .
Kunūz al-barā’a fī sharḥ maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
A commentary on Ḥarīrī,
1054-1122 ’s maqamat مقامات الحريري
Mirṣād al-ʻibād
Mukhtār al-Taḥbīr
Selections abridged from Qushayrī, ʻAbd
al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072 's Sharḥ al-Asmā’ al-ḥusnā’
شرح الأسماء الحسنى, on the names of
God.
Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ
This work is an abridgement of
Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? 's al-Ṣiḥāḥ (الصحاح), a lexicographical work, and is Rāzī ’s most famous work. Show more
The date of composition is c. 600-666 and the
place of composition is unknown, perhaps Konya (Turkey) if 666 is actually
date of composition as we know him to have been in the city at that time from the
Khalidiyya ijaza.
Qaṣīdat al-amālī - sharḥ
Rawḍat al-Faṣāḥa fī ‘ilm al-badī'
This treatise on rhetoric was dedicated to Artuqid ruler al-Malik al-Sa’id
Najm al-Din Ghāzī I الملك السعيد نجم الدين غازي
. It contains poems of Rāzī ’s own composition, including some on sultan al-Malik al-Sa’id
Najm al-Din Ghāzī I الملك السعيد نجم الدين غازي
. There are frequent citations from Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122 , on whose Maqamat مقامات
الحريري
Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Rāzī also wrote a
commentary, the Kunūz al-barā‘a كنوز
البراعة. It's known to be composed probably in Mardin (Turkey) between
637 and
658
Risālat al-fiqh
Risāla fī l-Tawḥīd
A work on Sufism, influenced by Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072 .
Tafsīr Gharīb al-Qur’ān
The work deals with Qur’anic vocabulary, based on the works of Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003? and
Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd
ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144 . Show more
Date of composition:Jumada I, 663
Tafsīr Mushkilāt al-Qur’ān
Tuḥfat al-Mulūk
This is an extremely popular work on Hanafi fiqh, dealing concisely with ritual
purity (ṭahāra), washing (wuḍū’), prayers (ṣalāt) etc. Many manuscripts have an
interlinear Turkish translation, suggesting the work’s status as an introductory
primer.
al-Anmūdhaj al-Jalīl fi Bayān al-Asaila wa al-Ajwiba
al-Enmūdaj al-Jalīl fi Bayān al-Asaila wa al-Ajwiba
al-Hidāya min al-i‘tiqād
A commentary on Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn
ʻUthmān, active 12th century 's Qaṣīdat al-amālī قصيدة الامالي. According to the introduction,
it was written at the request of some of the ‘ahl al-tawḥīd’,to explain Sunni
beliefs (an ashraḥa lahum i‘tiqādan ‘alā ṭarīq al-sunna wa-l-jamā’a). The manuscript
has another alternative name .
Ḥadā’iq al-ḥaqā’iq
This popular work offers advice and admonition on religious themes, based on
hadith
Referring authors