Mustafa Darir
Muṣṭafā Ḍarīr (seventh-century AH/fourteenth-century CE, born in Erzurum) was a Turkish-speaking scholar. His epithet ḍarīr means 'blind' and he is believed to have been blind from birth. According to Fahi̇r İz, "Ḍarīr shows remarkable mastery of ʿarūḍ; his verse is fluent and he often reaches the heights of lyric poetry.
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Mustafa Darir
Erzurumlu Darir · Erzurumlu Mustafa Darîr, Yüz Hadis Yüz Hikâye’si ve Yeni Nüshaları, Süleyman EFENDİOĞLU, Yusuf Ziya SÜMBÜLLÜ · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1301 · Erzurum.
- Died
- 1350
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- writer · poet · translator
- Languages
- Turkish
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Muṣṭafā Ḍarīr (seventh-century AH/fourteenth-century CE, born in Erzurum) was a Turkish-speaking scholar. His epithet ḍarīr means 'blind' and he is believed to have been blind from birth. According to Fahi̇r İz, "Ḍarīr shows remarkable mastery of ʿarūḍ; his verse is fluent and he often reaches the heights of lyric poetry.
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His pleasant and simple prose is one of the best specimens of early Turkish narrative style".
Muṣṭafā Ḍarīr composed the following works: • Tarjumat al-Ḍarīr (a five-volume Turkish-language adaptation and expansion of Abu al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī's version of Ibn Isḥāq's sīra, commissioned by the then sultan of Egypt, al-Manṣūr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī, and completed in 790 AH/1388 CE). • A translation and adaptation of Futūḥ al-Shām by al-Wāqidī, which Muṣṭafā Ḍarīr completed in 795 AH/1392 CE while in Aleppo. • A translation of a work known as The Hundred Ḥadīths • Yūsuf we Zulaykhā (a mathnawī)
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- 1.Fahi̇r İz, ' Sh eyyād Ḥamza', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by Paul Bearman and others, 2nd edn (Ledein: Brill, 1960-2005), .
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