Ottoman teacher and preacher of the early sixteenth century whom Ḥājjī Khalīfa and TDV list among the commentators on the Īsāghūjī.
Life
Al-ʿAṭūfī came from Merzifon, as he says himself in some of his works; the sources also call him al-Kastamonī for reasons that are not known. His father was called Maḥmūd. He studied Qurʾān and hadith with Bahşı Halife, (maʿānī) with Mawlānā ʿAbdī of Amasya, mathematics with Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad, grandson of Qāḍīzāde, legal theory with Khwājazāde and law with Afḍalzāde.
Because of his learning Sultan Bayezid II appointed him teacher of the palace staff. He later left the palace to preach and teach Qurʾān in the mosques of Istanbul, and finally withdrew to his house to write. He died in Eyüp and was buried near his house.
TDV credits him with about fifteen books, mostly and glosses, on Qurʾān commentary, hadith, medicine, and theology, including glosses on al-Zamakhsharī’s and al-Bayḍāwī’s commentaries and a large commentary on al-Ṣaghānī’s hadith collection Mashāriq al-anwār.
Uncertain or disputed
- Death date: TDV gives 948/1541; Ḥājjī Khalīfa’s Īsāghūjī entry gives 953.
- Name: TDV’s Īsāghūjī article and Ḥājjī Khalīfa call him Khiḍr b. ʿUmar, while TDV’s biographical article gives his father’s name as Maḥmūd (a study it cites names him Khiḍr b. Maḥmūd b. ʿUmar, so ʿUmar may be his grandfather).
Works
- Sharḥ Īsāghūjī شَرْحُ إِيسَاغُوجِي — on ĪsāghūjīListed by Ḥājjī Khalīfa (who could not quote its opening) and in TDV’s article on the Īsāghūjī; TDV’s article on al-ʿAṭūfī himself does not name it among his main works.commentary
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