Yusuf Efendi al-Iskilibi and his tafsir views in al-Mawhibat al-ilahiyya wa al- atiyyat as-subhaniyye

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Yusuf Efendi al-Iskilibi, who was born in Iskilip and brought up in Istanbul, was an eighteenth-century Ottoman scholar. Known as “Iskilibi logician (mantıqi) and ser-mon-giver (waiz)”, Yusuf Efendi worked as a professor (mudarris) in Suleymaniye and Sahn Saman Madreses and a sermon-giver in Suleymaniye and Fatih Mosques. One of his important works is his exegetical work, titled as al-Mawhibat al-ilahiyya wa al-atiyyat as-subhaniyye. This work has not been published yet and comprised of 637 folios. This is not a complete tafsir work but deals only with the exegisis of the suras from az-Zilzalto an-Nas. Given the limited number of suras this work engages in, it is a voluminous work. Yusuf Efendi pays a great attention to the linguistic analysis and literary aspect of given ayas, citations from early authorities and hadith literature. One of the factors that makes it a large work is its sermon character. This fact leads him usually to digress in his interpretations from the point in question and extensively engages in topics such as the birth of Prophet Muhammad and religiously significant nights. In his interpretations Yusuf Efendi closely followed the Hanafi views in legal matters and Maturidi views in theological issues. He also stresses the Sunni positions in his exegesis and refutes non-Sunni views including Mu‘tazila, Jabriyya. In most cases he names the sources for his quotations.

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10.17335/suifd.92801

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DergiPark (Istanbul University)

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