The Evaluation and critical edition of Molla Hüsrev’s Risâle fî Esrâri’l-Fâtihâ Abstract: Molla Husrev was a highly respected, humble scholar and a person of great moral character who lived during the reign of Sultan Murad the Second and...
moreThe Evaluation and critical edition of Molla Hüsrev’s Risâle fî Esrâri’l-Fâtihâ
Abstract: Molla Husrev was a highly respected, humble scholar and a person of great moral character who lived during the reign of Sultan Murad the Second and his son Mehmet II the Conqueror. During this period, he was appointed to different positions as muderris, qadi, and mufti. He had educated too many students and wrote various precious books in Usûl and Fiqh, as well as in Tafsir. Although he didn’t write a complete and independent Tafsir which covers all the Quran, he made very special contributions to Beydavi’s Envâru’t-tenzîl ve esrâru’t-tevîl by writing explanatory texts on some parts of it. There are also unpublished epistles that he wrote about different verses of Quran. In one of these epistles, he interpreted Surat al-Fatiha based on Ishari understanding which reflects the one of main characteristics of Ottoman Tafsir tradition. In this short epistle which gives no place to long linguistic explanations and rational implications, the author makes interpretations which cannot be taken from the apparent meaning but also do not
contradict it.
Keywords: Molla Husrev, Surat al-Fatih, Tafsir, Interpretation, Ishari, al-Tafsir al-Ishari.
