A Hanafi law manual in the vernacular
Devletoğlu Yūsuf Balıḳesrī's Turkish verse adaptation of theHidāya-Wiqāyatextual tradition for the Ottoman Sultan Murad II (824/1424)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2823001 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Nur Yıldız (Koç University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-304 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x17000477 |
| OpenAlex | W2605385032 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
This study examines how Devletoğlu Yūsuf Balıḳesrī's versified Hanafi law manual, written in Anatolian Turkish and dedicated to the Ottoman sultan Murad II (d. 855/1451), engages in a complex relationship between the nascent vernacular, Anatolian Turkish, and the Classical Arabic religious textual tradition. Devletoğlu Yūsuf's work,Manẓūm fıḳıh,is a Turkish paraphrase of theWiqāya, a popular abridgement of the major Hanafi law handbook, theHidāya, in the form of amathnawī(verse work of rhymed couplets). Several passages from the "Book on the Affairs of the Qadi" in Devletoğlu Yūsuf's work are analysed in order to gain insight into how the work functions as a normative text in the Classical Hanafi tradition set within a localized context. Furthermore, this study explores how the work expounds upon the benefits of transmitting religious knowledge in the vernacular and justifies the use of Turkish for religious texts by drawing on Hanafi-approved Persian language practices of religious devotion. Of particular interest is how Devletoğlu Yūsuf grounds his argumentation on the rhetorical theories of the Classical Arabic grammarian, ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |