Ḥekīm Bereket’s Tuḥfe-i Mübārizī
is a Turkish medical work written in the name of a certain melikü’l-ümerāʾ Mübārizeddīn
(ملك الامراء مبارز الدين) (Ar.malik al-umarāʾ ) ,
the identity of whom has been the subject of dispute. M. M. Koman
claims that he was Aydınoğlu Mübārizeddīn Mehmed Bey (d. 1334) who served as the
commander-in-chief (melikü’l-ümerāʾ; malik al-umarāʾ)
of the Germiyanid army before establishing himself as an independent warlord based in
Birgi (İzmir İli, Turkey) in around 1308,
and came to found the Aydınid dynasty. M. C. Ş. Tekindağ reads the name of the patron in the Konya manuscript
malik al-umarāʾ Mubāriz al-Dīn al-Mujāhid al-Ghāzī Khalīfat Alp b. Tūlī b. Turkānshāh
(ملك الامرا مباريزالدين المجاهد الغازي خليفت آلب بن تولي نن تركانشاه),
whom he identifies as a Seljuq amīr from the early thirteenth century. Most scholars, however, remain sceptical of Tekindağ’s
identification, and consider the patron to be the Aydınid bey. The author states that he first composed an Arabic version
of the work, entitled Lubāb al-nukhab(لباب النخب),
which he then translated first into Persian and then into Turkish. Based on Ibn Sīnā's Qānūn
(قانون), Ḥekīm Bereket's Tuḥfe-i Mübārizī consists of fours sections, with an
introduction on the basics of Galenic humoural theory, a description of illnesses, maintaining health through diet and lifestyle,
and the control of emotions and exposure to the elements. The fourth section concludes with an overview of treatments. Of
interest is the work's identification of three kinds of malaria. The work survives in two manuscripts (Paris and Konya). The work place
of composition is the Aydınid realm of western Anatolia (Aegean region).
