Mollah ‘İsam and His Work with the Name of Manzumetu’l-Elğazi’n-Nahviyye
MOLLA ‘İSÂM ve MANZÛMETU’L-ELĞAZİ’N-NAHVİYYE ADLI ESERİ

Author : Ahmet TEKİN
Number of pages : 1-20

Abstract

‘İsam Abdulmelik b. Cemaliddin el-İsami b. Sadriddin b. ‘İsamiddin el-İsferayini The Mollah was born in Mecca as a child of a family, which was accepted as the center of science, in 978/1570. ‘İsam The Mollah who started Arabic training with his father and uncle from the smaller ages received the training from many scholars. After his discipleship life that he finished with the great sacrifices, his famous spread, and he gained the scholars’ complaisance. ‘İsam The Mollah who made all of his time died in Madinah in 1037/1628 as he had more than sixty works and hundreds of disciples’ training in his short life as being fifty eight years. One those works belonging to him is the booklet with the name of Manzûmetu’l-Elğâzi’n-Nahviyye. This booklet consists of forty couplets and includes forty nine riddles. These riddles are nothing more than the syntax issues which are not common among the linguists, exceptional and rare usages, the subjects which are contrary to the view of majority and the wordbooks of Arabic tribes which are unknown well. In this study, the information was given about ‘İsam The Mollah and his work with the name of Manzûmetu’l-Elğâzi’n-Nahviyye. The subject of poetic riddles in the introduction section of study was considered before starting this work related to the syntax riddles, and this word’s lexical and technical meanings were emphasized. Furthermore, the information was given about the beginning of poetic riddle in The Arabic literature and grammar. Moreover, ‘İsam The Mollah’s comment with the name of Şerhu Manzûmeti’l-Elğâzi’n-Nahviyye that he wrote it in order to explain his poem was mentioned briefly. Furthermore, the information was given about the principles of syntax science that ‘İsam The Mollah based it as making his poetic riddles.

Keywords

Molla ‘İsâm, Poetic Riddle, Manzûmeti’l-Elğazi’n-Nahviyye.

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