Fetava-yi Ali el-Akkermani - فتاواى علي الآقكرمانى

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 14448
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1077
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 406 ff Material: Polished white laid European paper. Foliation: European, 406 ff. Dimensions: 198 x 136 mm; text area 155 x 76 mm. Pricking and Ruling: 23 lines. Rubrics. Numerous marginalia. Script: Nesih, with elements of rika. Binding: Original black morocco binding, with blind-tooled central medallions and flap; spine repaired.

Scope and Content

This is a collection of fetava issued by Akkermani Ali Efendi (died 1028 or 1030 AH/1618-19 or 1620-21 CE), a müderris and mufti in various regions of the Ottoman Empire for over thirty years. His fetava were posthumously compiled by Derviş Mehmed ibn-i Hasan İstanbuli in 1040 AH/1630-31 CE, who in that year had moved to Akkerman and subsequently come across Ali Efendi's loose papers. The collected legal rulings are issued according to the Hanafī school, preceded by fetava from various other authorities between ff 1v-12v. A brief notice of Ali Efendi is on f 12r, and 13r carries a table of contents. There are marginalia throughout. The colophon is on f 406r, and dates the copy to 1077 AH/1667 CE. However, the copyist is not named.

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Related Material

There is another copy of this work in the British Library at Or 11049. On Ali Efendi see Mehmed Süreyya, Sicill-i Osmani, III:509; I:251. Ali Efendi's fetava have been examined by Viorel Panaite in Ottoman Law of War and Peace. The Ottoman Empire and Its Tribute-Payers from the North of the Danube (2019 [2000]). She lists seven manuscripts (14, n. 69), excluding the two held by the British Library. The section on marriage and divorce has been examine by Elif Coşkun, 'Akkirmânî Ali Efendi (ö. 1028/1618)'nin Nikah Ve Talak ile ilgili Fetvaları' (Master's thesis, Hitit University, 2018).