An Autograph by Hasan Kafi Pruščrok Cover Image

Jedan autograf Hasana Kafije Pruščaka
An Autograph by Hasan Kafi Pruščrok

Author(s): Amir Ljubović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu

Summary/Abstract: The codex No 4579 (in the old inventory 23/59) in the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo is presented. In this codex there are two works written by Hasan Kafi Pruščak (full name Hasan Kafi b. Turhan b. Dawud b. Yaqub az-Zibi al-Aqhisari al-Bosnawi, born 1544, dead 1615 or 1616) in Arabic. He was one of the most distinguished Muslim intellectuals in Bosnia and Hercegovina under the Ottomans. His book The foundations of wisdom of the arrangement of the world (Usui al-hikam fi nizam al-'alam) is translated into the French, Hungarian, German, Turkish and Serbo-Croatian.

  • Issue Year: 1980
  • Issue No: 28-29
  • Page Range: 123-134
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian