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One of the scholars who won fame in the religious, literary and rational sciences in the reign of Murad I; the professor of the Zincirli Medrese at Aksaray.
His given name was Mehmed. His descent reaches, in the fourth generation, Fahreddin er-Râzî (d. 606/1210). There is no detailed information about the date of his birth.
He passed his life and carried on his scholarly activity at Aksaray, where he taught at the Zincirli Medrese.
The date of his death is disputed: Bursalı Mehmed Tâhir records the year 791 (1388-89), Brockelmann 1377, and Adnan Adıvar 1388.
His Circle of Influence — In his lessons he divided his students into three groups: those who took the lesson while walking (meşşâiyyûn), those who studied in the portico (revâkıyyûn), and those who studied within the medrese. Among the students he trained are such renowned scholars as Molla Fenârî and Hasan Paşa Niksârî.
His Works — He wrote numerous works in the fields of exegesis, hadith, jurisprudence, ethics, literature and medicine. The principal ones are Şerhu'l-Îzâh, Hâşiye ale'l-Keşşâf, Hallü'l-Mûcez, Keşfü'l-i'râb and Ahlâk-ı Cemâlî.
Differing Scholarly Views
There are three separate records of the date of his death. Bursalı Mehmed Tâhir gives the year 791 (1388-89), Brockelmann 1377, and Adnan Adıvar 1388. The atlas does not choose one and erase the others; the reader must see the disagreement itself (principle 6).
The date of his birth is not in the TDV article. The source says plainly that no detailed information about the date of his birth exists. The birth year 1313 that appears in the atlas record does not come from this article; it probably comes from the second citation attached to the record, the Evliyalar Ansiklopedisi, and needs to be verified with volume and page. The reader should know that this year does not come from the source on which the biography rests (principle 6).
Sources
- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) — Mustafa Öz · vol. 7, pp. 308-309, entry “CEMÂLEDDİN AKSARÂYΔ
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Permanent ID: EA-Z-000064 · this address reaches the same record even if its name changes; use it when citing.
External records: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam article