A COMMENTARY ON THE QUR'AN COMMISSIONED BY HAMDI MAHMUD PASHA, GOVERNOR OR RUMELI

SIGNED SHAYKH 'ALI A STUDENT OF SHAYKH SALIH, SOFIA, OTTOMAN BULGARIA, DATED AH 1252/1836 AD

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A COMMENTARY ON THE QUR'AN COMMISSIONED BY HAMDI MAHMUD PASHA, GOVERNOR OR RUMELI
SIGNED SHAYKH 'ALI A STUDENT OF SHAYKH SALIH, SOFIA, OTTOMAN BULGARIA, DATED AH 1252/1836 AD
A translation in Ottoman Turkish of Tafsir al-Tibyan, Turkish manuscript on paper, 386ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 41ll. of black naskh, some phrases in red, titles in white on gold ground, within gold rules, catchwords, with finely illuminated marginal medallions, opening bifolio with text on gold ground and illuminated heading and margins, in original gilt stamped red morocco binding and slip case, important worm holing and losses toward the beginning
Text panel 10¼ x 5½in. (26 x 14.2cm.); folio 13 7/8 x 8 3/8in. (35.5 x 21cm.)

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This work was originally commissioned by Shaykh al-Islam
Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (d. 1678 AD).
Hamdi Mahmud Pasha was the Ottoman Governor of Rumeli in 1823 and then between 1834 and 1836. He died in 1838 AD. Whilst the finely stamped and gilt binding might have been executed in Constantinople, the manuscript was copied in Sofia. The scribe's teacher, Shaykh Salih, was the Shaykh of the dervish lodge of Kapan in Sofia.

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