This religious work provides information on basic Islamic practices, doctrines
and sacred months and days. It consists of twenty sections (majlis) interspersed with verse, Quranic verses,
hadith selections, and anecdotes. There is confusion over whether this work should
be attributed to İbn Melek
or his son Muḥammed. Show more
The place of composition is Tire
(Turkey) in the Aydınid realm (Western Anatolia)
This is one of the oldest Arabic-Anatolian Turkish dictionaries. Written in
verse, it contains Turkish equivalents for 1528 words cited in the Quran. İbn Melek compiled the dictionary
for the education of his grandson ʿAbdurraḥmān probably in 795. It became the model for subsequent Ottoman rhyming
dictionaries. Show more
The place of composition is Tire
(Turkey) in the Aydınid realm (Western Anatolia)
This work is a commentary on the Hanafi lexicographer and hadith specialist,
Abū al-Faḍāʾil Raḍī al-Dīn al-Ḥasan b.
Muḥammad al-Ṣaghānī (d. 650/1252)’s Mashāriq al-anwār al-nabawiyya min Ṣiḥāḥ al-akhbār al-Muṣṭafawiyya.
al-Ṣaghānī’s work integrates the
two Ṣaḥīḥs, the iconic hadith collections by al-Bukharī andMuslim
respectively. İbn Melek’s commentary on
al-Ṣaghānī’s concise and
alphabetically organized guide to Prophetic hadith constituted a foundational text
in the Ottoman madrasa curriculum, and exists in innumerable manuscript copies and
many modern editions. Show more
The place of composition is Tire
(Turkey) in the Aydınid realm (Western Anatolia)
