Ibn Kamāl Pasha — also Kemalpaşazade, Aḥmad Shams al-Dīn Efendi — was an Ottoman Ḥanafī scholar and Shaykh al-Islām who died in 940 H / 1533 C.E. He is the author of the al-Maqālāt fī bayān ahl al-bidʿa waʾd-ḍalalāt (“Treatises on the Exposition of the People of Innovation and Error”), a small work that, despite divergences in detail, is constructed entirely on the schema of the *Maʿrifat al-madhāhib*. The adaptation is cited by Voorhoeve in the introduction to the 1955 edition of Raniri’s two Malay treatises as one of the witnesses to the textual tradition of the schematic classification of the seventy-two Islamic sects.
The al-Maqālāt fī bayān ahl al-bidʿa waʾd-ḍalalāt
The al-Maqālāt fī bayān ahl al-bidʿa waʾd-ḍalalāt of Ibn Kamāl Pasha is an Ottoman adaptation of the *Maʿrifat al-madhāhib* — the schematic overview of the seventy-two Islamic sects. Despite divergences in detail, the work is constructed entirely on the schema of the Maʿrifat al-madhāhib: the six head-sects, each subdivided into twelve, with the names and dogmas of the individual sects in the same order. Voorhoeve used the Leiden manuscript Cod. Or. 2937 of the work for his comparison with the *Tibjān* of Raniri; another manuscript is Gotha 852. Perhaps the same is Risāla fī bayān al-firak ad-dālla, GALS II 670 no. 58.
Significance
Ibn Kamāl Pasha is one of the witnesses to the textual tradition of the *Maʿrifat al-madhāhib* — the schematic overview of the seventy-two Islamic sects that is one of the principal sources of the *Tibjān* of Raniri. His al-Maqālāt fī bayān ahl al-bidʿa waʾd-ḍalalāt is one of the principal Ottoman adaptations of the tract, and is a document of the diffusion of the scholastic classification of Muslim heresies from the Arab-Persian world to the Ottoman empire. The fact that the same schematic classification was carried, by separate channels, to the Ottoman empire and to the Malay-Indonesian archipelago is itself a measure of the wide diffusion of the Maʿrifat al-madhāhib in the early modern Muslim world.
See Also
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Inleiding §2b (“De bronnen van de Tibjān”), pp. 13–15, where Ibn Kamāl Pasha’s adaptation is discussed.
C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) II, 670 no. 58.
Ibn Kamāl Pasha — also Kemalpaşazade, Aḥmad Shams al-Dīn Efendi — was an Ottoman Ḥanafī scholar and Shaykh al-Islām who died in 940 H / 1533 C.E. He is the author of the al-Maqālāt fī bayān ahl al-bidʿa waʾd-ḍalalāt (“Treatises on the Exposition of the People of Innovation and Error”), a small work that, despite divergences in detail, is constructed entirely on the schema of the *Maʿrifat al-madhāhib*. The adaptation is cited by Voorhoeve in the introduction to the 1955 edition of Raniri’s two Malay treatises as one of the witnesses to the textual tradition of the schematic classification of the seventy-two Islamic sects.
The al-Maqālāt fī bayān ahl al-bidʿa waʾd-ḍalalāt
The al-Maqālāt fī bayān ahl al-bidʿa waʾd-ḍalalāt of Ibn Kamāl Pasha is an Ottoman adaptation of the *Maʿrifat al-madhāhib* — the schematic overview of the seventy-two Islamic sects. Despite divergences in detail, the work is constructed entirely on the schema of the Maʿrifat al-madhāhib: the six head-sects, each subdivided into twelve, with the names and dogmas of the individual sects in the same order. Voorhoeve used the Leiden manuscript Cod. Or. 2937 of the work for his comparison with the *Tibjān* of Raniri; another manuscript is Gotha 852. Perhaps the same is Risāla fī bayān al-firak ad-dālla, GALS II 670 no. 58.
Significance
Ibn Kamāl Pasha is one of the witnesses to the textual tradition of the *Maʿrifat al-madhāhib* — the schematic overview of the seventy-two Islamic sects that is one of the principal sources of the *Tibjān* of Raniri. His al-Maqālāt fī bayān ahl al-bidʿa waʾd-ḍalalāt is one of the principal Ottoman adaptations of the tract, and is a document of the diffusion of the scholastic classification of Muslim heresies from the Arab-Persian world to the Ottoman empire. The fact that the same schematic classification was carried, by separate channels, to the Ottoman empire and to the Malay-Indonesian archipelago is itself a measure of the wide diffusion of the Maʿrifat al-madhāhib in the early modern Muslim world.
See Also
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Inleiding §2b (“De bronnen van de Tibjān”), pp. 13–15, where Ibn Kamāl Pasha’s adaptation is discussed.
C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) II, 670 no. 58.