دراسة وتحقيق لـ"تحفة الأفاضل في صناعة الفاضل" لرضي الدين ابن الحنبلي
A Critical Edition of Radıyyüddin İbnü’l-Hanbelî’s Treatise “Tuhfetü’l-efâzıl fî sınaatı’l-fâzıl”

Summary/Abstract: This article includes the edition critique of a treatise, attributed to Celâlzâde Mustafa Çelebi (975/ 1567) who is the most famous head scribe and the sealer (nişancı) in Imperial Council (Divan-ı Humayun) and written by Radıyyüddin İbnü’l- Hanbelî (971/ 1563), who is a well-known scholar in Aleppo at the times of Suleiman the Magnificent which is the most powerful period of the Ottoman Empire in Aleppo. This work, written in the disciplines of inshâ and secretaryship, is an important work which shall have a place in literature. There are many factors making this work significant. At the head of these factors, there comes the fact that it is written by a great scholar of language and history, who is a member of a family famous for these two disciplines. Another factor making the work essential is the fact that it is attributed to the most reputed head scribe and the sealer of the era of Suleiman the Lawgiver, apex of the Ottoman Empire. Moreover, Celâlzâde Mustafa Çelebi had undertaken the most important role for Suleiman’s earning the epithet the Lawgiver. It is possible to divide the work under three main headings. Under the first heading, the author gives detailed information and examples about the areas that secretaries should be proficient in, such as the Glorious Qur’an, the prophetic sayings, the language and the poetry. After the second section, in which important information and true stories about the merits and the superiority of secretaries are given, in the third section, a one verse poem praising Celâlzade Mustafa Çelebi, including his name, is veiled with an acrostic style in a long ode’s first letters. On the last page of the treatise, this poem is clearly written and it is stated that the works is copied by the author’s father in Edirne.

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