| ID | 11 |
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| Author | Firāḳī |
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| Work Title | Ḳırḳ Su’āl (The Forty Questions) |
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| Manuscripts | There are than sixty manuscripts in the ‘Islamic’ manuscript collections in Turkey and elsewhere. [I’ve not yet been able to see all of them and locate if any the autograph or at least the earliest examples. Since the work and its author are quite well-known some other texts with this title are catalogued as Firāḳī’s and there are as well many epistles of the same name but whose author is not precised in the catalogues] |
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| Editions | Yücel Önen, “Kırk Su’al (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük)”, Unpublished M. A. Thesis, Dumlupınar Üniversitesi, 2009 and Molla Firâkî, Kırk Sual, Hace Emine Kıbrısî (ed,), Istanbul, Sebil, 1993 (popular editon) |
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| Date | 1540-50 |
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| Content Summary | The text is the most popular example of the sub-genre called the ‘forty-questions’ (ḳırḳ suʾāl). The work consists of questions fictively addressed to Muḥammad about the origins of the Universe, the end of it and several other cosmogonical, eschatological matters as the status of angels, their species. |
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| Bibliography | viii-categories: marvels; Sufism; natural sciences ix-tags: angelology; cosmogony; Hermes; ‘İsrailliyat’ |
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| Date Added | (not set) |
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