Abū al-ḥasan Isma‘īl b. Ibrāhīm b. Isfandīyar b. Bāyazīd b. ‛Adīl b. ‛Amir Ya‛qūb b. Shams al-Dīn b. Yemen Jendār, Member of the Kastamoni dynasty, 15th century
Abū al-ḥasan Isma‘īl b. Ibrāhīm b. Isfandīyar b. Bāyazīd b. ‛Adīl b. ‛Amir Ya‛qūb b. Shams al-Dīn b. Yemen Jendār
, Member of the Kastamoni dynasty
, 15th century
ابو الحسن اسماعیل بن ابراهیم بن اسفنديار بن بایزید بن عدیل بن عمر یعقوب بن شمس الدین بن یمن جندار
Isma*il Beg
Manuscripts by this author
Ḥ̣ulwīyāt-i sulṭānī
A vast compilation treating of the fundamental obligations of Islam, i.e.
purification, prayer, alms, fast, and pilgrimage Show more
In the preface the author shows what degree of instruction is obligatory to
every Muslim, and quotes from the Qur’ān and Hadīs̲’s precepts relating to the
acquisition of knowledge and promises of blessings to 'Ulamās. Anxious to secure for
himself some of those blessings he compiled the present compendium, as he calls it,
of the knowledge necessary to God's service and, from his inability to compose in
Arabic, wrote it in Turkish
The work is principally based upon the Targhīb-i
Ṣalāt (ترغیب صلوۀ) by Muḥammad b. Aḥmed
Zāhid, محمد بن احمد زاهد; see 182 and 807, but in the body of the work quoted on almost every page is
based on the Ṣalāt-i Mesʻūdī (صلوۀ مسعودی), see 41 and occasionally also the ʻUmdat al-Islām ( عمدة الإسلام ) and
numerous other works, chiefly those of the Ḥanefī school, the latest of which
appears to be the Muqaddimah-’i Quṭb al-Dīn
(مقدمۀ قطب الدین) by Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad
Nikīdī, d. 1418-19. Although belonging to the last-named school, the
author refers also frequently to the opinions of Shafīʻ doctors
