Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Or 14782
- Record Id:
- 032-004053128
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004053128
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100134509954.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 14782
- Title:
- [Fetava-yı Ali Efendi]
- Additional Titles:
-
[فتاوى على افندى]
[Kitab-ı Fetava-yı Ali Efendi el-Merhum]
- 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 until Zilkade 1097 AH/September 1686 CE, when he was exiled to Bursa by Sultan Mehmed IV. He was reinstated as Şeyhülislam by Ahmed II, but died in Edirne just forty days after assuming office, on 2 Şaban 1103 AH/19 April 1692 CE.
The Fetava-yı Ali Efendi consists of fetava issued by Ali Efendi during his long period as Şeyhülislam. It includes 4412 rulings related to issues encountered or discussed in daily life in the eleventh century AH/seventeenth century CE Ottoman Empire, and therefore sheds light on the religious, social, and cultural life of the period. The basis of the many printed editions of the work (the first one in 1245 AH/1830 CE) was a copy prepared by Salih ibn-i Ahmed el-Kefevi, which links each fetva to a supporting transmission from one of a number of Arabic-language Hanafi sourcebooks.
The work consists of fifty-three kitablar, starting with Kitabü’t-tahara and ending with Kitabü’l-Feraiz. Each kitab is subdivided into bablar. In the table of contents of the present volume (ff 1v-5v), each of the kitablar and the bablar are written and numbered, coming to 201 in total. Additional fetva were written on top of an empty contents frame on f 1r. The volume also contains numerous marginal annotations throughout, which mostly consist of quotes from Arabic-language textbooks of the Hanafi school. These offer proofs and additional detail to supplement the brief, one-word answers of the main text. Other copies of the Fetava-yı Ali Efendi held by the British Library (Or 14130 and Or 16146) appear to have a greater number of such annotations. A number of annotations in the present volume can be found in Salih ibn-i Ahmed el-Kefevi’s printed edition.
The colophon can be found on f 207v, where the copyist signs his name as Musa ibn-i Yahya ibn-i Kamil in mid-Muharrem of 1152 AH/April 1739 CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004053128", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 14782: [Fetava-yı Ali Efendi]" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004053128
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004053128
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 208 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1739
- End Date:
- 1739
- Date Range:
- 1152
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
- Available for research unless otherwise stated
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Material: Thick off-white laid paper. Water damage and worm eaten in some places
Foliation: European, 208 ff
Dimensions: 210 x 190 mm
Pricking and Ruling: 31 lines (main text area). Red headings and overlinings
Script: Nestalik
Binding: British Library modern binding
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased on 2 March 1993 from Ms M. Allaf.
- Information About Copies:
- For other manuscripts, see M. Götz, VOHD XIII/5, 72 and Sohrweide, VOHD XIII/3, 86-87 and XIII/5, 99-100. There are at least 17 copies of this work in the Gazi-Husrev-Begova Biblioteka, Sarajevo. See O. Lavic, Katalog arapskih, turskih, perzijskih i bosanskih rukopisa [Gazi Husrev-Begova Biblioteka u Sarajevu], volume 10 (London and Sarajevo, 2002). See also the references in Kallek, ‘Fetâvâ-yı Ali Efendi.’
- Publications:
- The Fetava-yı Ali Efendi was published several times, first in one volume (1245 AH/1830 CE) and then in two (Istanbul 1258). For a recent annotated edition, see Açıklamalı Osmanlı fetvâları. Fetâvâ-yı Ali Efendi, edited by H. Necati Demirtaş (İstanbul: Kubbealtı Akademisi Kültür ve Sanat Vakfı, 2014). A new edition, prepared by Esra Kilavus and published in two volumes by İSAR, is forthcoming (2021). See also See also Ali Efendi, El-Muhtarat minel fetava: seçme fetavalar, edited İbrahim Ural and M. Ali Sarı (İstanbul: Fey Vakfı, 1996).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Çatalcalı Ali Efendi, 1103
- Subjects:
- Islamic law
Islamic law -- Early works to 1800 - Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
- For other copies of the work in the British Library, see Or 14130 and Or 16146. On Çatalcalı Ali Efendi, see Mehmet Ipşirli, ‘Çatalcalı Ali Efendi,’ TDVİA 8:234-235, and the references provided there. See also SO III, 519-20; Danişmend, İOK III, 539. On Ali Efendi's Fetava, see Cengiz Kallek, ‘Fetâvâ-yı Ali Efendi,’ TDVİA 12:438.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Or 14130
Or 15757
Or 15984
Or 16146