Al-tibyan fi tefsir el-Kuran - البيان فى تفسير القرآن
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This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish tefsir of the Qur'an made at the request of Sultan Mehmet IV by Halil İbn-i İbrahim, who was born at ᶜaynṭāb (Gaziantep) and educated at Sıvas. Through the influence of the Şeyh-ül-İslam Minkarizade Yahya, he obtained a position in İstanbul in the Sultan's...
This volume contains a commentary on the Qaṣīdat al-burdah (قصيدة البردة) of Abū ᶜabdullāh Muḥammad ibn Saᶜīd al-Būṣīrī (died 694 AH/1294-95 CE or 696 AH/1296-97 CE) by Seyit Ahmet İbn-i Mustafa known as Lali (died 971 AH/1563-64 CE).The translator gives each verse in both Ottoman Turkish and Pe...
A brief note in Arabic by Shaykh Shibli of the Druze, as well as his signature in Latin script, followed by an explanation of the text and its context. The Arabic text appears to read: يمكن بينى وبينك اعهد مثل براهيمThe English text below explains that this was written during an interview at al-A...