The Early Modern Philosophical “Diploma” by Muhammad al-Kafawi: Text, Translation from Arabic, and Commentary
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The first annotated edition of the Arabic text and Ukrainian translation of the “permission” (ijaza) to teach theological disciplines related to Avicennaism (mid-18th century). This permission was awarded by a scholar of Crimean origin, Muhammad al-Kafawi, to Khalil al-Akkirmani, a native of Akkerman (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi). The document is reconstructed on the basis of a newly discovered manuscript from Leiden University Library (The Netherlands). Based on the permission, it is argued that the intellectual circles of the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire at that time were involved in the systematic study and reproduction of the philosophical tradition, namely the so-called “rational sciences.”
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