किनालीज़ादे अली चेलेबी

कृतियाँ

• 1564अली का नीतिशास्त्र (अहलाक़-ए-अलाई)

  1564 में दमिश्क़ में लिखी और सूबेदार सेमिज़ अली पाशा को समर्पित व्यावहारिक दर्शन की तुर्की पुस्तक: आत्मा पर भूमिका, फिर नीति, गृहस्थी और राज्य; अंतिम भाग न्याय को वह मानता है जो राज्य को जीवित रखता है और न्याय के चक्र के आरेख से समाप्त होता है; केवल इस्तांबुल में इसकी सत्तर से अधिक पांडुलिपियाँ सुरक्षित हैं।

मत

Kınalızade is on the map for The Ethics of Ali (Ahlâk-ı Alâî), which he wrote in 1564 in Damascus and dedicated to the governor of Syria, Semiz Ali Pasha. It brought the tradition of philosophical ethics to Ottoman readers in Turkish and is treated by modern scholars as the principal Ottoman work of its kind. In its own words a work on “practical wisdom”, it follows the arrangement that Nasir al-Din al-Tusi had given this tradition in the Nasirean Ethics: after an introduction on the soul and the purpose of ethics come ethics proper – the kinds of character, the virtues, the diseases of the soul and their cure, the discipline of speech – then the management of the household and finally the government of the state. Kınalızade drew on al-Tusi, on al-Dawani’s Jalalian Ethics and on Husayn Vaʿiz Kashifi, and, through them, on Miskawayh and al-Farabi, but he adapted the material to Ottoman society. The political part insists that a realm can last only through justice and closes with a diagram of the “circle of justice”, in which ruler, law, army, revenue and subjects depend on one another. In discussing bodily resurrection he noted that Ibn Sina and al-Tusi held different views in different works. The book survives in more than seventy manuscripts in Istanbul libraries alone and was printed at Bulaq in 1832/33. Katip Çelebi praised its author a century later in The Balance of Truth as a rare investigator of the truth.

जीवन और संदर्भ

ʿAli ibn Emrullah, known as Kınalızade Ali Çelebi or Ali Efendi, was born in 1510 in Isparta in south-western Anatolia; the family name, “son of the man with henna”, goes back to his grandfather. He studied in Istanbul with several professors, finally at the madrasa of Mehmed the Conqueror with Çivizade Muhyiddin, and became his assistant in 1538. From 1543 he taught at madrasas in Edirne, Bursa, Kütahya and Istanbul, among them the Sahn-ı Seman and, from 1558, the Süleymaniye. From 1562 he served as judge in Damascus, Cairo, Aleppo, Bursa, Edirne and Istanbul, and in 1571 he became chief military judge of Anatolia. He died on 22 January 1572 in Edirne, probably while preparing for a campaign with Sultan Selim II; Wikidata gives 1571. He was also a poet in Turkish, Persian and Arabic, and his son Hasan Çelebi wrote a well-known collection of biographies of poets.

अन्य प्रमुख कृतियाँ

• The Ethics of Ali (Ahlâk-ı Alâî, 1564)
• Classes of the Hanafi Jurists (Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya)
• Gloss on al-Baydawi’s Qur’an commentary
• Collected letters (Münşeât) and poems