Journals / Kutadgubilig: Felsefe Bilim Araştırmaları / 2012 / Cilt: 0 - Sayı: 22
Some remarks on mulla khusraw's astronomy: Risala fi al-mushkilat al-mashura fi ilm al-haya [A treatise on the unsolved problems of astronomy]
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- 9–32
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Abstract
Beginning from the second half of XIII.th century, in the area of Anatolia-Iran-Turkestan of Islamic geography, due to education-research institutions (mad-rasas in the lead), a harmony between philosophical-scientific knowledge and religious knowledge was created and this knowledge was socialized. At the end of this process, a similarity occurred in the concept of knowledge between scholars and educated people in Islamic world and in the given area, for the first time in history a philosophical-scientific society was created, in which the concepts of knowledge for scholars and educated people are mostly similar. A typical example of this fact is the science of cosmology-astronomy. In this period, scientific cosmology-astronomy produced by al-hikma al-nazariyya constituted the concept of astronomy-cosmology for an average educated person. In other words, there was a scientific concept of cosmology-astronomy, shared by scholars who produced this astronomy and people who learned it and people was building their conception of universe according to this pattern/patterns. In this paper, I will examine Mullâ Khusravv's (d. 885/1480) Astronomy: Risala ft l-mushkilât al-mashhüra ft ilm al-hay'a as an example. Rather than focusing on the technical side of the Risala which is in fact a commentary on Qutb al-Drn al-ShrrâzI's Nihâyat al-idrâk ft dirâyat al-aflâk (a work which is common in Mullâ Fanân's circle), I will look at the historical value and meaning of its tradition in the lineage of Ibn Haytham - Shams al-Din al-Kharaql - Mahmud al-Chaghmlnr - Muayy al-Din al-Urdi - Naşir al-Din al-Tusî - Qutb al-Din al-Shlrazr - Abd al-Vajid al-Kutâhr - Qadizade al-Bursawr - Ali al-Qushjr. I will also examine the content of scientific mentality in Samarqand Mathematic-Ast-ronomy School. For the last, I will discuss its place, importance and relationships in the context of "The First Environment of Philosophy and Science in Istanbul" which made its existence possible.
Özet
Bu çalışmada, Molla Hüsrev'in (öl. 885/1480), Kutbuddin Şirâzî'nin, Nihâyet el-idrâk fi dirayet el-eflâk'ımn onuncu babının bir yorumu olan astronomi sahasındaki Risale fi müşkilât el-meşhûre fi ilm el-hey'e adlı eseri incelenecek, tarihî anlamı ve değeri üzerinde durulacak; XV. yüzyılda, Anadolu - İran - Türkistan ortak kültür havzasında nazarî hikmet çerçevesinde ilmî kozmoloji-astronomi'yi üreten bilginler ile tahsilini alan insanların paylaştığı müşterek Evren tasavvurunun içeriği tahlil edilecektir.