@article{article_338952, title={Critical Text Edition and Assesment of Dāwūd Ibn Muḥammad al-Qārisī’s Commentary on Īsāghūjī}, journal={Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi}, volume={21}, pages={2009–2068}, year={2017}, DOI={10.18505/cuid.338952}, author={Özpilavcı, Ferruh}, keywords={Logic,Logic in Islamic Philosophy,Ottoman Thought,Commentary Tradition in Logic,Īsāghūjī,Commentary on Īsāghūjī,Dāwūd al-Qārisī,Logic in the Ottoman Thought}, abstract={<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <b>Abstract: </b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Living in the 18th century, a
prolific era of Ottoman logic studies, Dāwūd al-Qārisī was a prominent scholar
and logician who excelled in studies of Arabic Linguistics, Kalām, Hadith and
Logic. Known as having a particular interest in Imam Birgivī (d. 981/1573) and
his teaching, and serving as an instructor (mudarris) after living in
Cairo and inheriting the scientific tradition of Egypt and the Maghrib, al-Qārisī’s
brilliancy in logic can be seen when his works on logic are examined. In this
study, we prepare the critical text edition of al-Qārisī’s Commentary on
al-Abharī’s </span>short but <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">famous treatise Īsāghūjī.
The edition also includes reviewing and assessment of the work. After giving
information about the life and works of al-Qārisī, we introduce and describe
twelve works of logic authored by him which have not been previously identified
or deeply studied. We have identified that al-Qārisī authored two other
commentaries, one on Najm al-dīn al-Kātibī’s famous al-Shamsiyya, the
other on Sa‘d al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī’s Tahdhīb al-Mantıq wa al-Kalām. He
also authored al-Īsāghūjī al-jadīd as an alternative for Īsāghūjī.
After giving information about all identified copies of the edited work, we
present al-Qārisī’s original ideas, critics and contributions to logic issues
against such prominent logicians and commentators as Muḥammad ibn Ḥamza al-Fanārī
(834/1431) and Ḥusām al-dīn Ḥasan al-Kātī (760/1359). </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <b>Summary:  </b> </span>Dāwūd al-Qārisī (Dāwūd al-Qārsī) was a versatile and prolific 18th
century Ottoman scholar who studied in Istanbul and Egypt and then taught for
long years in various centers of learning like Egypt, Cyprus, Karaman, and Istanbul.
He held high esteem for Mehmed Efendi of Birgi (Imām Birgivī/Birgilī, d.1573),
out of respect for whom, towards the end of his life, al-Qārisī, like Birgivī,
occupied himself with teaching in the town of Birgi, where he died in 1756 and
was buried next to Birgivî </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Better known for his following works on Arabic language and rhetoric and
on the prophetic traditions (hadith): Sharḥ uṣūl al-ḥadīth
li’l-Birgivī; Sharḥ Ḳaṣīdat al-nūniyya (two commentaries, in Arabic
and Turkish); Şarḥ Amsilat al-mukhtalifa fi al-ṣarf (two commentaries,
in Arabic and Turkish); Sharḥ Bināʾ; Sharḥ ʿAvāmil; and Sharḥ Izhār
al-asrār, al-Qārisī has actually composed textbooks in quite different
fields. Hence the hundreds of manuscript copies of his works in world
libraries. Many of his works were also recurrently printed in the Ottoman
period. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">One of the neglected aspects of al-Qārisī is his identity as a logician.
Although he authored ambitious and potent works in the field of logic, this
aspect of him has not been subject to modern studies. Even his bibliography has
not been established so far (with scattered manuscript copies of his works and
incomplete catalogue entries). </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">This article primarily and in a long research based on manuscript copies
and bibliographic sources, identifies twelve works on logic that al-Qārisī has
authored. We have clarified the works that are frequently mistaken for each
other, and, especially, have definitively established his authorship of a
voluminous commentary on al-Kātibī’s al-Shamsiyya, of which commentary a
second manuscript copy has been identified and described together with the
other copy. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Next is handled his most famous work of logic, the Sharh al-Isāghūjī,
which constitutes an important and assertive ring in the tradition of
commentaries on Isāghūjī. We describe in detail the nine manuscript
copies of this work that have been identified in various libraries. The
critical text of al-Qārisī’s Sharh al-Isāghūjī, whose composition was
finished on 5 March 1745, has been prepared based on the following four
manuscripts: (1) MS Kayseri Raşid Efendi Library, No. 857, ff.1v-3v, dated
1746, that is, only one year after the composition of the work; (2) MS Bursa Inebey
Yazma Eser Library, Genel, No.794B, ff.96v-114v, dated 1755; (3) MS Millet Library,
Ali Emiri Efendi Arapça, No. 1752, ff.48v-58r, dated 1760; (4) MS Beyazıt Yazma
Eser Library, Beyazıt, No. 3129, ff.41v-55v, date}, number={3}, publisher={Sivas Cumhuriyet University}