A set of 171 questions and answers in two parts, with the first part dealing with questions on on Qur’an commentary
(tafsīr (تفسير)), and the second part on ḥadīth
(حديث). The work was prepared for the benefit of the amīr of
Amasya (Turkey), Ḥācı Şadgeldi Paşa (d. 1381)
(حاجي شادکلدي پاشا). Show more
This work, which exists in a unique manuscript of 44 chapters (bāb), is a losse Turkish translation or adaptation of
Ḥusayn b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī al-Bukhārī al-Zandawistī (d. 400/1010) (حسين بن يحيى بن علي البخاري الزندوستي)
's Arabic work, Rawḍat al-ʿulamā wa nuzhat al-fuḍalāʾ (روضة العلما او نزهة الفضلاء).
Composed in the name of the amīr of Amasya, Ḥācı Şadgeldi Paşa (d. 1381)(حاجي شادکلدي پاشا), it is Aḳsarāyī's
only known work in Turkish. Written in the format of a religious primer, it contains explanations of the meaning of religious terms such as tawḥīd (توحيد) and
tawakkul (توجل), as well as narrates sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad,
stories of the prophets and Companions, and touches on questions about death, heaven and hell and the afterlife. It draws on Qur’anic verses, Prophetic traditions, miscellaneous anecdotes, prayers, maxims and verse,
which are sometimes provided first in the Arabic followed by a Turkish explanation. Show more
The Ḥall al-Mūjaz (حلّ الموجز) (The Resolution of the Mūjaz(موجز))
is a commentary on Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفس)
's Mūjaz (موجَز) (alternatively Mūjiz
(موجِز)), which is a radically abbreviated version of Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا)'s Qānūn (قانون). Aksarāyī states that he wrote the work for the benefit of students studying the Mūjaz (موجز), which served as the definitive reference guide for students of medicine as well as practicing physicians in the
fourteenth century. Similar to the Mūjaz (موجز), the work
consists of four sections (fann (فنّ)), with the first dealing with the theoretical basis of Galenic humoral medicine,
the second with disease and therapeutics in general, the third with diseases according to organ, proceeding from head to foot, and the fourth section on fevers and contagious diseases.
It provides the full text of the Mūjaz via verbatim quotations prefaced by the statement “the author said,” which is accompanied by explanations, clarifications, and additions
prefaced by the phrase “I say.” According to Nahyan Fancy, the Ḥall al-Mūjaz
(حلّ الموجز) provides an overview of the major disagreements among physicians, and between physicians and philosophers over the function of
the liver in generating blood and the vital faculty or psychic spirit (al-quwwa al-ḥayawāniyya (القوّة الحيوانية),
or pneuma), ), a topic which is absent in the Mūjaz (موجز)
(although discussed and rejected by Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس) in his commentary of
>Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا)’s Qānūn (قانون)).
The place of composition is Aksaray or Amasya. Show more
This is a commentary on al-Zamakhsharī (d. 538/1144)'s seminal
Qurʾan commentary, the Kashshāf (كشّاف). The Khwarazmian Muʿtazilite ,
Abū’l-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī (ابوالقاسم محمودابن عمرالزمخشري)'s
(also called Jār Allāh(جارالله))
al-Kashshāf ʿan Ḥaqāʾiq ghawāmiḍ al-Tanzīl (الكشاف عن حقائق غوامض التنزيل)
(“The Discoverer of the Truths of the Hidden Things of revelation”) is an exhaustive Qurʾan commentary which provides deep linguistic and
grammatical analysis of its verses.
