Even though Turkey has the biggest manuscript collection in the world, the studies on the tradition of sharh-hashiya are just at the beginning stage. Unfortunately, only 10% of these manuscripts have been studied, which shows that evaluating this tradition will take long time. It is estimated that the number of extant manuscripts is approximately 10 million. Since this topic has attracted many academics, University of California, Berkeley, hosted Commentaries Conference (October 12-14, 2012) in order to discuss the tradition of sharh-hashiya in Islamic intellectual history. In recent years, the works concentrating on sharh-hashiya books have nullified this judgment by showing the originality of these books. However, such a judgment has been made recklessly. Some orientalists, such as Montgomery Watt, and their followers underestimate the value of the tradition of sharh-hashiya, and they also claim that these kinds of books do not demonstrate the originality. īefore explaining these types of books, I would like to bring up an important issue about these books. This post considers different kinds of books in terms of their purpose of writing and explains what matn, sharh, hashiya, taliqa, and takmila are. Moreover, books have been treated as an art object due to different writing styles, ornaments on their pages and covers, and their binding styles. Since books were a medium through which ilm was transmitted to the next generation, they have taken an important place in Islamic civilization. Islamic civilization was built on ilm (knowledge). … Let me state here that Baron de Tott's that the press was scorned and Ibrahim had to close his press is totally false”. It is easy to have Arabic and Turkish manuscripts, whose beauty and elegance are beyond the printed books.
Turks like the hand-written books very much. Moreover, if many manuscripts Turks order copied based on their need and pleasure are considered, it will become immediately obvious that one press in such a huge capital cannot damage the calligraphers. At this time, these books are not published in the press. But most of them copy mushaf (Quran), tafsir (Quranic exegesis), dua (invocation), hutba (sermon), tasawwuf (sufism) and religious books. It is true that many people make money from this occupation. 箴言录 / (古埃及)赫哲尓著 (宗教文化出版社, 2004.2) EDSRC:The alchemy of happiness (Kīmiyā yi Saʿādat) : in the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate / by Ḥujjat al-Islām Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī Ṭūsī translated from the Persian by Jay R.Evaluating narrations about the closing of Ibrahim Mutafarrika's press, he writes: “The pervasive and often repeated story that calligraphers stopped the press' service by putting pressure on the State is based on the gossip between the common people and is nothing but a baseless invention.
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