Risale-yi Muhammadiye - رسالۀ محمدیه

The well-known religious poem of Yazıcıoğlu Mehmet Efendi. Mehmet bin Salih, also known in Arabic as Ibn al-Kātib, or as Yazıcıoğlu in Turkish, is often connected to his brother Ahmet Bijan. He was a native of Malgara near Edirne, as mentioned in the commentary of İsmail Hakkı, and became a disciple and halife of the mystic Şeyh Haci Bayram in Ankara. He spent most of his life in religious seclusion at Galipoli, where he died in 855 AH (1451-52 CE). In addition to the current work, he is also known for a commentary on the Fusus ul-Hikem. This poem is also known as the Muhammadiye. It is an exposition of traditions and doctrines within Islam based on texts from the Qur'an and the Hawādith. It deals especially with the divine mission of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم, with his life, with the end of the world, paradise, hell, and similar subjects. The epilogue of the poem contains an account of the visions in which the Prophet Muhammad صلعم and Haci Bayram appeared to the author; eulogies on the two Sultans then living, Murat II and Mehmet II; and on the author's patron, Vezir Mahmud Paşa İbn-i Kasap. After describing his former work, the Maghārib, and his brother Bijan's Ottoman Turkish version, Envar ul-Aşikin, the author says that the latter work and the present were both the product of a surfeit of material from the Maghārib. . The original poem was completed in Cemaziulahir 853 AH (July-August 1449 CE), as stated on f 308v. The current manuscript was copied by Yahya İbn-i Abdallah and completed in Safer 1049 AH (June 1639 CE).

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Acquired from the collection of A. Gunsburg.

Please see Rieu, Charles, Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 168-169.

Other copies of this text can be found at Or 5092, Or 13358, and Or 13906. For information on the author of the poem, please see OM I, pp. 194-6; HOP I, p. 391; and Uzun, Mustafa İsmet, 'Yazıcıoğlu Mehmed Efendi: Daha çok Muhammediyye adlı eseriyle tanınan Osmanlı mutasavvıf şairi,' Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Last accessed: 24 August 2021. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/yazicioglu-mehmed-efendi.

The Muhammadiye has been edited by Kazim Beg in Qazan in 1845, and lithographed in Istanbul in 1258 and 1270 AH (see Journal Asiatique 4e Série, tom. iii, p. 223; and Sitzungsberichte der Kais. Akademie, Vienna, vol. xvii, p. 169). A commentary by İsmail Hakkı, entitled Farah ur-ruh, has been printed in Bulaq in 1252 AH. A second edition, published in the same place in two volumes in 1258 AH contains the text of the poem. A Persian version, by 'Ala ad-din 'Ali b. Muhammad, known as the Musannifek, is mentioned by Flügel in Jahrbücher, vol. 47, Anz. Bl. p. 21.