International Journal of Theological and Islamic Studies

Abstract

Commentary has been an important type of writing in our literature from past to present. Today, it can be said that there are a considerable number of commentaries that have not yet come to light and are waiting to be studied. Those that can be identified aim to contribute to the culture of manuscripts and are brought to our literature by being transferred to modern letters and published. This study will evaluate Mehmet Büküm's book, Şerh-i Kenzü'l-ârifîn: Hüseyin Nazmî-zâde'nin Şerhi to Shi'ite Attâr-ı Tûnî's Sufi Risâles: Şerh-i Kenzü'l-ârifîn, which was published in February 2023 and which appeals both to experts in the field and to readers interested in classical literature. According to Büküm, Attār al-Ṭūnī's Kenz al-ārifīn was attributed to Ferid al-Dīn Attār al-Nīshābūrī in Iran and probably in Anatolia due to the similarity of the name. In fact, Kenz al-'ārifīn was published several times in Iran with Ferid al-Dīn Attār al-Nīshābūrī as its author. The commentator of the treatise suffered the same fate as its author and was confused with his brother Nazmî-zâde Murtaza. Büküm's meticulous study of the author and the commentator is based on Hüseyin Nazmî-zâde's seventeenth-century Ottoman Turkish commentary on the Iranian Sufi Attâr-ı Tûnî's Kenzü'l-ârifîn.