“el-Mevhibetü'l-ilahiyye ve'l-'atıyyetü's-sübhaniyye” ADLI ESERİ ÇERÇEVESİNDE İSKİLİPLİ YUSUF EFENDİ'NİN TEFSİR ANLAYIŞI

Year 2006, Volume: 8 Issue: 13, 1 - 23, 15.06.2006

İhsan Kahveci

Abstract

Yusuf Efendi al-Iskilibi, who was born in Iskilip and brought up in Istanbul, was aneighteenth-century Ottoman scholar. Known as “Iskilibi logician (mantıqi) and sermon-giver (waiz)”, Yusuf Efendi worked as a professor (mudarris) in Suleymaniye andSahn Saman Madreses and a sermon-giver in Suleymaniye and Fatih Mosques. One ofhis important works is his exegetical work, titled as al-Mawhibat al-ilahiyya wa al-atiyyatas-subhaniyye. This work has not been published yet and comprised of 637 folios. Thisis not a complete tafsir work but deals only with the exegisis of the suras from az-Zilzalto an-Nas. Given the limited number of suras this work engages in, it is a voluminouswork. Yusuf Efendi pays a great attention to the linguistic analysis and literary aspectof given ayas, citations from early authorities and hadith literature. One of the factorsthat makes it a large work is its sermon character. This fact leads him usually to digressin his interpretations from the point in question and extensively engages in topics suchas the birth of Prophet Muhammad and religiously significant nights.In his interpretations Yusuf Efendi closely followed the Hanafi views in legal mattersand Maturidi views in theological issues. He also stresses the Sunni positions in hisexegesis and refutes non-Sunni views including Mu'tazila, Jabriyya. In most cases henames the sources for his quotations.

Keywords

Osmanlı alimleri, Yûsuf Efendi, Yûsuf el-İskilibi, Tefsir, elMevhibe, Osmanlı müfessirleri, İskilipli alimler, Halimî

Yusuf Efendi al-Iskilibi and his tafsir views in al-Mawhibat al-ilahiyya wa al- atiyyat as-subhaniyye

Abstract

Yusuf Efendi al-Iskilibi, who was born in Is

kilip and brought up in Istanbul, was an

eighteenth-century Ottoman scholar

. Known as “Iskilibi logician (

mant

ı

qi

) and ser-

mon-giver (

waiz

)”, Yusuf Efendi worked as a professor (

mudarris

) in Suleymaniye and

Sahn Saman Madreses and a sermon-giver in

Suleymaniye and Fatih Mosques. One of

his important works is his exegetical work, titled as

al-Mawhibat al-ilahiyya wa al-atiyyat

as-subhaniyye

. This work has not been published

yet and comprised of 637 folios. This

is not a complete

tafsir

work but deals only with the exegisis of the suras from

az-Zilzal

to

an-Nas

. Given the limited number of suras this

work engages in, it is a voluminous

work. Yusuf Efendi pays a great attention to

the linguistic analysis and literary aspect

of given ayas, citations from early authoritie

s and hadith literature. One of the factors

that makes it a large work is its sermon charac

ter. This fact leads him usually to digress

in his interpretations from the point in quest

ion and extensively engages in topics such

as the birth of Prophet Muhammad and religiously significant nights.

In his interpretations Yusuf Efendi closely

followed the Hanafi views in legal matters

and Maturidi views in theological issues. He

also stresses the Sunni positions in his

exegesis and refutes non-Sunni views includin

g Mu‘tazila, Jabriyya. In most cases he

names the sources for his quotations.

Keywords

Ottoman scholars, Yusuf Efendi, Yu suf Iskilibi, Tafsir, al-Mawhiba, Ottoman Exegetes, Halimi