Author
Mehmet Kalayci
Subject
Ulama
Type
Book
Language
ara,tur
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 1301-0522, DOI: 10.33227/auifd.1141773
Record ID
cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_3ed3e33d15e04b9b8ac632cfe41f811f
Library Location
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, Alma/SFX Local Collection
Notes
The madrasah established in Iznik after the conquest of Orhan Bey was the first madrasah to be put into operation in the geography under Ottoman rule. This situation brought about the attribution of a central function to the city of Iznik and the madrasah there in terms of Ottoman scientific and intellectual life. There is no doubt that Iznik deserves this greatly. However, the adventure of the Ottoman Empire, which started as a principality, turned into a great state experience covering the whole of Anatolia, causing the pre-Ottoman intellectual story of Anatolia to be understood retrospectively through the Ottoman Empire. This not only obscured the pre-Ottoman story of Anatolia, but also made it difficult to understand the intellectual climate in which the Ottoman Empire came into being. However, during the Anatolian Seljuks and Principalities period, there were science centers in Anatolia as important as Iznik, and perhaps even more important. This situation occurred in the 8th/14th. It requires analyzing 19th century Anatolia through its own historical and intellectual memory, without confining it to the Ottoman Empire. The possibility of this lies in the versatile bio-bibliographic data provided by manuscripts, and this article is mainly shaped by such data. The main problematic of the article is whether the two people nicknamed Tācuddīn, who were both found to have lived in Anatolia at the same time, are the same person. The first of these is Tācuddīn el-Kürdī, who is mentioned in the Ottoman chronicles as the second teacher of the Iznik Madrasa, and the other is Tācuddīn es-Sulṭānyūkī, whom Ibn Baṭṭūṭa met in Kastamonu and mentioned as one of the great scholars of his period. The intersection of the biographical and bibliographic data we were able to find as a result of the research we have been carrying out for a while regarding these two name combinations, centered on Ḥanefī, led us to the idea that these may actually be the same person. In the article, we first discussed the data we could detect regarding both noun combinations under separate headings, and then analyzed the possibility of an integrated reading through these data. The biographical and bibliographic data encountered during both the data collection and writing process allowed us to see that a fundamental fiqh-centered book culture was in circulation in Anatolia during the Principalities period. This ultimately led us to the idea that we should be wary of readings of history that weigh the religious and intellectual life of the relevant period more in terms of oral culture and Sufi tendencies.
Görüntüle
Ankara Üniversitesi İlâhiyat Fakültesi dergisi, 2022-11, Vol.63 (2), p.483-556
