This Arabic tafsīr or Qurʾān commentary was originally produced for the
education of the Candarid ruler İsfendiyār b. Bāyezīd’s son, Tāceddīn İbrāhīm Beg,
f.1440s, in 808. It is
accompanied by an interlinear Turkish translation, glossed over each line of the
Arabic text. There is disagreement among scholars as to whom the author of this work
is. Some believe that it was compiled by a certain ʿAlāʾeddīn Efendī, 1374
originally from Nukhara. Abdulkerim Abdulkadiroğlu
disagrees with this attribution, and argues that the author is a certain Şeyḫ el-Ḥāc
Muṣṭafā, the grandson of Şeyḫ ʿAbdülfettāh Velī, d.
1272, founder of the Yılanlı Dergah, or dervish lodge, in Kastamonu. Show more
Anatolia, most likely in the Black Sea region, possibly in
Kastamonu
