Kemālpaşazāde
Tarājim baʿḍ al-Aḥnāf
Rūmالروم
KonyaBursaEdirneIstanbul
Rūm
Anatolia and Rumelia gave Hanafi scholarship an important place in Ottoman teaching and judicial institutions. A scholar’s career could move between a madrasa, a judgeship and the capital. This regional page therefore connects scholarly writing with institutions and careers, rather than with one city alone.
Al-Kafawi’s career makes these connections visible: he studied in Istanbul and held teaching and judicial appointments, including in Kefe and Gallipoli. His concern with identifying teachers and students also shaped his biographical writing, linking an Ottoman scholarly present to the earlier Hanafi tradition.
Sources and further reading
Works in this catalogue
Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī
Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya
Kınalızāde
Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
al-Kafawī
Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār
al-Zīlī
Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam
Shams al-Dīn Sīvāsī
al-Ḥiyāḍ
ʿOsmānzāde Aḥmed Tāʾib
Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam
Kāmī Efendi (al-Edirnevī)
Mahāmm al-Fuqahāʾ
Naẓīrā İbrāhīm Efendi
Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam
Müstaḳīmzāde
Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam
Scholars
بدر الدين السماويBadr al-Dīn al-Simāwī
ملا فناريMollā Fenārī
ملا خسروMollā Khusraw
خواجه زادهḤocazāde
كمال باشا زادهKemālpaşazāde
طاشكبري زادهTaşköprizāde
قنالي زاده عليKınalızāde ʿAlī
البركويBirgivī
أبو السعودEbussuud
الكفويal-Kafawī
نوعي أفنديNevʿī Efendi
حسن كافي الأقحصاريḤasan Kāfī al-Aqḥiṣārī
كاتب جلبيKâtip Çelebi
شيخي زاده دامادShaykhīzāde Dāmād
ساجقلي زاده المرعشيSājaqlīzāde al-Marʿashī
مستقيم زادهMüstaḳīmzāde
أحمد جودت باشاAḥmad Cevdet Pasha
علي حيدر أفنديʿAlī Ḥaydar Efendiمحمد زاهد الكوثريMuḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharīمصطفى صبريMuṣṭafā ṢabrīManāqib & ṭabaqāt
The regional catalogue includes short tabaqat works, an abridgment of al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya and al-Kafawi’s Kata’ib A‘lam al-Akhyar. These are different ways of organising the school’s past: selecting lives, shortening a major reference work, or tracing groups of jurists and their teachers.
Arabic and Ottoman Turkish works appear together here. The later Turkish manaqib titles show that accounts of Abu Hanifa continued to be recast for new readers. Language, genre and dependence on earlier books are therefore as important to comparison as the author’s date or place.
Sources and further reading
Huzeyfe Çeker · §3.17, §3.19, §3.20, §3.21, §2.35, §2.36, §2.39, §3.25, §2.40, §2.41
Works in this catalogue
Connections beyond the region
- Müstaḳīmzāde, Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam → al-Ṣāliḥī, ʿUqūd al-Jumān
The model for its chapters.
- Müstaḳīmzāde, Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam → al-Suyūṭī, Tabyīḍ al-Ṣaḥīfa
- Müstaḳīmzāde, Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam → al-Makkī, Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfa
Also quotes his poems.
- Müstaḳīmzāde, Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam → al-Qurashī, al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya
- Müstaḳīmzāde, Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam → al-Sabadhmūnī, Kashf al-Āthār
- Müstaḳīmzāde, Manāqib-i Imām-i Aʿẓam → al-Dhahabī, Manāqib al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfa
- Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī, Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya → al-Qurashī, al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya
An abridgement.
- al-Kafawī, Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār → al-Qurashī, al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya
Cited.
- al-Kafawī, Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār → al-Ṣaymarī, Akhbār Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Aṣḥābihi
Named as an authority.
- al-Kafawī, Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār → al-Nahrawālī, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya
Preserves a page-long excerpt.
- Kāmī Efendi (al-Edirnevī), Mahāmm al-Fuqahāʾ → al-Qurashī, al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya
Named as a source.
- Kāmī Efendi (al-Edirnevī), Mahāmm al-Fuqahāʾ → Ibn Quṭlūbughā, Tāj al-Tarājim
Cited.
- al-Laknawī, al-Fawāʾid al-Bahiyya → al-Kafawī, Katāʾib Aʿlām al-Akhyār
Begun as an abridgement of al-Katāʾib.