| ID | 5 |
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| Author | Anonymous; usually attributed to Aḥmed Bīcān (d. after 1466) but see Kaptein, Dürr-i meknun, 45-47; Grenier, “Reassessing the Authorship of the Dürr-i meknūn” |
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| Work Title | Dürr-i meknūn (“Hidden pearls”) |
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| Manuscripts | More than 25 mss. (plus more than 20 partial mss.) in various libraries (see Kaptein, Dürr-i meknun, 593-595 and Demirtaş, Dürr-i meknun, 18-19) |
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| Editions | editor: Laban Kaptein; title: Dürr-i meknun. Kritische Edition mit Kommentar; publisher: privately published; date: 2007. editor: Necdet Sakaoğlu; title: Dürr-i meknun: saklı inciler; publisher: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları; date: 1999. editor: Ahmet Demirtaş; title: Dürr-i meknun (Tıpkıbasım – İnceleme – Çevriyazı – Dizin); publisher: Akademik Kitaplar; date: 2009. editor: Jean-Louis Mattei; title: Les perles cachées (Dürr-i meknun), d’après un manuscrit de 1748. Traduction du turc osmanli, études et notes; publisher: Isis; date: 2016. |
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| Date | shortly after 1455 |
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| Content Summary | This famous cosmology from the second half of the fifteenth century has the form of an ʿacāib-styled cosmography, with descriptions of the heavens, the earth with its mountains, rivers etc., the fauna and flora; it also displays a strong eschatological flavor, with chapters on the signs of the End of Days and a peculiar chapter on cifr based explicitly on Bisṭāmī’s work. |
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| Bibliography | Laban Kaptein, Dürr-i meknun. Kritische Edition mit Kommentar, ed. Laban Kaptein, Asch: privately published 2007; Laban Kaptein, Apocalypse and the Antichrist Dajjal in Islam: Ahmed Bijan’s Eschatology Revisited. Asch: privately published, 2011; Carlos Grenier, “The Yazıcıoğlus and the Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier”, Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, 2017; Carlos Grenier, “Reassessing the Authorship of the Dürr-i meknûn”, Archivum Ottomanicum 35 (2018), 193-211; Carlos Grenier, “The Yazıcıoğlu Brothers and the Textual Genealogies of Ottoman Islam”, Turcica 49 (2018), 37-59; Aynur Koçak, Ahmet Bicanʼin eserleri uzerine bir inceleme. Istanbul: Üçdal Neşriyat, 2003. viii-categories [cosmology; eschatology; geography; marvels; magic] |
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| Date Added | 2024-09-18 15:57:31 |
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