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Language Turkish, Ottoman Level [32] Fonds

1341. Or 16124

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16124
Title:
Maktel-i Hüseyin - مقتل حسين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an anonymously authored narrative account (dasitan) of the martyrdom of Imam Hüseyin, son of Ali and grandson of the Prophet, in 61 AH/680 CE. The text would have been recited annually on the anniversary of his death on the tenth of Muharrem. The text opens with an exordium...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1125
Extent:
1 text, 128 ff

1342. Or 16125

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16125
Title:
[Tuhfetü’z-zaman ve haridetü’l-evan] - [تحفة الزمان وخريدة الاوان]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on cosmography and on determining prayer times authored in 932 AH/1526 CE by the Ottoman astronomer, astrologer, and timekeeper, Mustafa ibn-i Ali el-Muvakkit (died 979/1571). Mustafa ibn-i Ali was born in Istanbul in the early tenth century AH/sixteenth century ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1072
Extent:
1 text, 222 ff

1343. Or 16140

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16140
Title:
Fütuhu’ş-Şam - فتوح الشام
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a free translation of the Arabic-language Futūḥ al-Shām, which chronicles the conquest of Syria under the caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar. Its translation into Ottoman Turkish was executed by the author and poet Mustafa ibn-i Yusuf Darir Erzenü’r-Rumi (of Erzurum), an author activ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:
1 text, 173 ff

1344. Or 16141

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16141
Title:
Müzekki’n-nüfus - مزكّي النفوس
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Müzekki’n-nüfus (‘The purifier of souls’), a treatise on Sufism and Islamic ethics by the renowned early Ottoman poet and mystic Eşrefoğlu Rumi (died 874 AH/1469-70 CE), also known as Eşrefzade. Eşrefoğlu was born in Iznik in the late eighth century AH/fourteenth centur...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1001
Extent:
1 text, 311 ff

1345. Or 16142

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16142
Title:
[Menakıb-ı evliya] – [مناقب اوليا]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an account of the teachings of Şeyh Safi, or Safiyyüddin-i Erdebili (died 735 AH/1334 CE), founder of the Safavi Sufi order and hence regarded as that of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. The author, whose identity is unknown, states in his introduction that his intention was to ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 192 ff

1346. Or 16143

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16143
Title:
[Düsturü’l-amel] – [دستور العمل]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a Persian-Ottoman Turkish encyclopaedic dictionary by Riyazi Mehmed Efendi (died 1054 AH/1644 CE). The work is not to be confused with Katib Çelebi’s short treatise of the same name. Riyazi Mehmed was a pupil of Ebüssuud Efendi (died 982/1574), a religious scholar in his ow...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1161
Extent:
1 text, 53 ff

1347. Or 16144

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16144
Title:
Risale fi mefhumi’l-feraiz - رساله في مفهوم الفرائض
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a detailed treatise on the apportionment of legacies according to the Hanefi school of jurisprudence. As with most works on this subject, a substantial amount of it comprises detailed tables indicating the proportions to be received by various heirs. As is common in feraiz ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
around 12th century
Extent:
1 text, 129 ff

1348. Or 16145

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16145
Title:
Feraiz-i vafiye - فرائض وافيه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an adaptation in Ottoman Turkish of al-Farā’iḍ al-Sirājiyya, the well-known Arabic treatise on the laws of inheritance according to the Hanafi madhhab. The Farā’iḍ was authored by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī (died after 596 AH/1200 CE). It was frequently translated an...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1175
Extent:
2 texts, 62 ff

1349. Or 16146

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16146
Title:
[Fetava-yı Ali Efendi]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the collected fetava of Çatalcalı Ali Efendi (Born 1041 AH/1631-32 CE, died 1103 AH/1692 CE). Ali Efendi held a number of judicial positions before his appointment to the position of Şeyhülislam in Zilkade 1084 AH/February 1674 CE. He held this position for over twelve years...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1139
Extent:
1 text, 313 ff

1350. Or 16147

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16147
Title:
Süleymanname - سليماننامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the sixth part of this folk narrative, in prose intermixed with verse, by Uzun Firdevs or Firdevs-i Tavl. The present manuscript lacks at least one folio at the beginning. According to Mundy's notes, it begins in meclis 26 and ends with meclis 98. The hero Sam plays a prom...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 103 ff

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