Scholar trained in Shiraz who became a physician at the Ottoman court and whom the reference works list among the commentators on the Īsāghūjī.
Life
Ḥakīm Shāh was the son of a physician; ‘Ḥakīm’ (physician, sage) became part of the name by which he was known. After his first studies he went to Shiraz, probably between 1478 and 1497, to study with the famous scholar Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī, and stayed there long enough to train in Qurʾān , theology, , grammar and medicine. When the Safavids took over Iran he went to Mecca and lived there for a time.
On the recommendation of Müʾeyyedzāde ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Efendi, the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II invited him to Istanbul, where he became a palace physician. He lost the post after rumours that he had sided with Prince Selim in the struggle for the throne, but was restored when Selim I came to power (918/1512) and accompanied him on many campaigns. He died in the first years of Süleyman the Magnificent’s reign, after 929/1523, the year in which he finished two works in his own hand.
He wrote in Arabic and Persian: a Qurʾān , a work on the coherence of the sūras, glosses on al-Taftāzānī’s commentary on the Nasafī creed and on al-Dawānī’s commentary on the ʿAḍudī creed, medical treatises, and a Persian translation of ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī’s Chagatay biographical dictionary of poets, Majālis al-nafāʾis.
Uncertain or disputed
- Death date: TDV places it after 929/1523; Mehmed Süreyya gives 928/1522; Ḥājjī Khalīfa gives the 920s in two places and 966 in another (the latter is rejected by TDV, and it is the date his Kashf al-ẓunūn gives in the Īsāghūjī entry).
- Some late sources confuse him with Mīrak al-Bukhārī (Muḥammad b. Mubārakshāh, d. after 784/1382) and attribute that scholar’s works to him.
Works
- Sharḥ Īsāghūjī شَرْحُ إِيسَاغُوجِي — on ĪsāghūjīNamed among his works by Ḥājjī Khalīfa and TDV; no manuscript is identified in the sources consulted.commentary
- Ḥāshiya ʿalā Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid al-Nasafiyya حَاشِيَةٌ عَلَى شَرْحِ العَقَائِدِ النَّسَفِيَّةOn al-Taftāzānī’s commentary; written in 920/1514 and presented to Selim I (autograph in the Süleymaniye Library).gloss
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