Ottoman scholar of the nineteenth century who wrote ‘the new gloss’ on al-Siyālkūtī’s gloss on the part on conceptions of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Shamsiyya.
Life
Al-Kharpūtī is known from a single work. The TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, in its articles on the Shamsiyya and on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī, names ‘Abdülhamîd el-Hamdî b. Ömer en-Naîmî el-Harpûtî’ as the author of a gloss on ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm al-Siyālkūtī’s gloss, itself a gloss on al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī’s gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn’s commentary (the Quṭbī). His nisba refers to Kharpūt (Harput) in eastern Anatolia. The sources consulted give no dates for his life.
In the preface of the printed text he calls himself ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥamdī b. ʿUmar al-Naʿīmī al-Kharpūtī and explains that al-Siyālkūtī’s gloss on the conceptions of the Shamsiyya commentary was well known among students and teachers, but difficult. According to the colophon he finished the fair copy of his ‘new gloss’ on Friday 15 Jumādā al-Ūlā 1287 (August 1870), and the copy scanned from the İzmirli İsmail Hakkı collection was printed in Istanbul under Sultan ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. His book stands at the fourth level above al-Kātibī’s text, a clear example of how far the layering of commentaries on the Shamsiyya went.
Uncertain or disputed
- Dates of birth and death are not known from the sources consulted.
- Date of printing: the TDV gives Istanbul 1287; the colophon of the scanned copy dates the completion of the fair copy to Jumādā al-Ūlā 1287 and its printing, as far as the poor scan can be read, to 10 Jumādā al-Ūlā 1289. There may have been two printings; this should be checked against a clean copy.
Works
- al-Ḥāshiya al-jadīda ʿalā Ḥāshiyat al-Siyālkūtī ʿalā al-Taṣawwurāt الحَاشِيَةُ الجَدِيدَةُ عَلَى حَاشِيَةِ السِّيَالْكُوتِيِّ عَلَى التَّصَوُّرَاتِ — بر al-Risāla al-ShamsiyyaA gloss on al-Siyālkūtī’s gloss on the part on conceptions of the Quṭbī with al-Jurjānī’s gloss. Printed Istanbul 1287/1870 (TDV); a copy in the İzmirli İsmail Hakkı collection is scanned on archive.org.حاشیہ
Reception
The TDV names his gloss, with ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shirbīnī’s notes, as the latest layer of the Shamsiyya tradition built on al-Siyālkūtī; see ‘The commentaries on the Shamsiyya’.
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