| ID | 3 |
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| Author | Aḥmed Bîcân (d. after 1466) |
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| Work Title | Envâru’l-‘Aşıḳîn (“The Lights of the Lovers”) |
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| Manuscripts | More than 140 mss. in various libraries (see Abdullah Uğur, “Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bîcân ve Envarü’l-Aşıkîn Adlı Eseri (İnceleme-Metin)”, Marmara University, Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, 2019, 99-160). The earliest known manuscript is the one copied in the middle of Rebî‘ I 918 / June 1512 (Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Pertev Paşa 229). |
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| Editions | Abdullah Uğur, “Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bîcân ve Envarü’l-Aşıkîn Adlı Eseri (Inceleme-Metin), Marmara University, Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, 2019 |
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| Date | Written between 1444-1451 |
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| Content Summary | This compendium gives a thorough cosmo-logical view of Islam for rather lay and probably, illiterate public. It covers the stories of Beginning and the End, the vitae of the prophets, catechistical guidelines as well as praxeologic information about Muslim rites and rituals. The text is in dialogue with several strands of Islamic theology, historiography and Sufism. Yet, the influence of al-Ghazzali on the one hand and Ibn Arabi, on the other is palpable not only for the organization of the text with clear, ‘scholastical’ division of the text to parts, sections, chapters, and sub-chapters but for the synthesis elaborated against on the one hand staunch purists like Ibn Taymiyya and the so-called heterodox milieu of Late Medieval Asia Minor. This piece among some with some other pieces written in the late phases of Old Anatolian Turkish, like Mevlîd of Süleyman Çelebi and Muḳaddime of Kutbeddin İznikî, constitute (may be even today) the basic texts of vernacular Islam. |
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| Bibliography | Hatice Kelpetin Arpaguş, Osmanlı Halkının Geleneksel İslâm Anlayışı ve Kaynakları, İstanbul 2001, p. 24-32; Ahmed Bîcan, Envârü’l-âşıkîn, Halil Bedi Fırat (ed. ), İzmir 1970; Ahmed Bîcan, Envârü’l-âşıkîn, Mustafa Rahmi (ed.), İstanbul 1974; Carlos Grenier, “The Yazıcıoğlus and the Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier”, Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, 2017; Abdullah Uğur, “Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bîcân ve Envarü’l-Aşıkîn Adlı Eseri (Inceleme-Metin), Marmara University, Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, 2019 viii-categories: marvels; Sufism; natural sciences ix-tags: cosmology; orthopraxy |
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