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Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)

Title (arabic)

فتح الفتحيّة
Title (translit)

Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)
Alias

Şerh el-fethiyye
Author

Ghulām Sinān
Created

1485 CE/ 0890 AH
Created in

Istanbul
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Text type

Second-order composition (Commentary) [sharh]
Commentary on

al-Risālah al-Fatḥiyyah (al-Qūshjī) [Version 3]
al-Risālah al-Fatḥiyyah (al-Qūshjī)
Dedicated to

Bāyezīd II: Sulṭān Bāyazīd (Bāyezīd) ibn Muḥammad Khān ibn Murād Khān
Incipit

سبحان من زيّن الرفيع بالانجم الزهراء وبين بها طرق الهداية في لجج الماء وميّز منها سبعة سيارة كل في فلك يسبحون...
Explicit

...رب قد اتيتني من الملك وعلمتني من تأويل الاحاديث فاطر السموات والارض انت وليّ في الدنيا والاخرة توفني مسلما والحقني بالصالحين.
Notes

Ghulām Sinān studied the Fatḥiyya with Qushjī in Istanbul, and his commentary on the treatise was completed in 890/1485. It includes detailed notes of his classroom readings and discussions of the text with Qushjī, and these classroom activities may have played a role in Qushji’s revisions of the text.
ismi_id

168304

Manuscript Witnesses

8 witnesses:
Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)_Bursa_İnebey Yazma_Haraççıoğlu (Bursa)_1210
Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)_Bursa_İnebey Yazma_Ulu Cami (Bursa)_2412
Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)_Istanbul_Kandilli Rasathanesi_NONE_143
Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Carullah_1504
Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Fatih_5396
Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Halet Efendi_537
Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)_Istanbul_Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi_Ahmet III_3290
Fatḥ al-Fatḥiyyah (Ghulām Sinān)_Istanbul_Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi_Ahmet III_3291

Literature References

Umut, Hasan. 2019. “Theoretical Astronomy in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: ʿAlī Al-Qūshjī’s Al-Risāla Al-Fatḥiyya”. Institute of Islamic Studies. Montreal, Quebec: McGill University.

See esp. pp. 487, 548.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Vol. 1, p. 68 (no. 35).