Ibrahim al-Halabi

Life

Works

• Ghunyat al-Mutamallī, known in Turkish as Halebi-i Kebir "great Ḥalabī", a commentary on Munyat al-Muṣallī, a text on ritual prayer by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kāshgharī.
• Mukhtaṣar Ghunyat al-Mutamallī, an abridgement of the previous text, known in Turkish as Halebi-i Sağir "small Ḥalabī".

• al-Fawā’id al-Muntakhaba min al-Fatāwā al-Tātārkhāniyya, an anthology of fatwās selected from a larger, authoritative collection compiled by order of Khān-i A‛ẓam Tātārkhān, a nobleman at the court of Muḥammad Shāh II of the Ṭughlāq dynasty in northern India.
• Mukhtaṣar Fatḥ al-Qadīr, a summary of Fatḥ al-Qadīr by Muḥammad ibn ‛Abd al-Wāḥid Ibn al-Humām, a voluminous commentary on al-Marghīnānī's Hidāya, one of the sources of al-Ḥalabī's Multaqā.
• Mukhtaṣar al-Jawāhir al-Muḍiyya fī Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafiyya, an abridgement of a work by Abū Muḥammad ‛Abd al-Qādir ibn Abī al-Wafā’ containing biographical and bibliographical information on the "classes" of scholars belonging to the Ḥanafī school.

• Naẓm Sīrat al-Nabī wa-Sharḥuh, a versified biography of Muḥammad in 63 verses, with the author's own commentary.
• al-Ḥilya al-Sharīfa, on Muḥammad and his virtues, mainly based on the famous Kitāb al-Shifā’ by Qāḍī ‛Iyāḍ.
• Kitāb Fuṣūl al-Arba‛īn, a selection of traditions arranged in forty chapters, concerned with various aspects of Islamic ritual.
• A commentary on an ode composed by Sharaf al-Dīn Ismā‛īl ibn Muqri’ al-Yamanī, a Shāfi‛ī scholar.

• Ni‛mat al-Dharī‛a fī Nuṣrat al-Sharī‛a.
• Tasfīh al-Ghabī fī Tanzīh Ibn ‛Arabī.
• al-Rahṣ wa-l-Waqṣ li-Mustaḥill al-Raqṣ.

• al-Qiyām ‛inda Dhikr Wilādat Rasūl Allāh, against the practise of standing up when the birth of Muḥammad is mentioned during the celebration of the mawlid.
• Risāla fī al-Masḥ ‛alā al-Khuffayn, on the lawfulness of the practice of rubbing footwear during ritual purification, a much debated issue at the time.
• Risāla fī al-Radd ‛alā man I‛taqada Islām Āzār, on the question of whether there were infidels among the ancestors of Muḥammad.
• Risāla fī Ḥaqq Abaway Nabiyyinā , on the question of whether any of the people who died before the mission of Muḥammad could be regarded as true believers.
• Risālat al-Himmaṣa, on the lawfulness of using a concoction of chick peas as a poultice.
• Risāla fī Tawjīh al-Tashbīh.
• Risāla fī Sharaf al-Qurashī Nabiyyinā.

• Silk al-Niẓām, by Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafā al-Ḥalabī a commentary on Jawāhir al-Kalām, a philosophical text by ‛Aḍud al-Dīn ‛Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.
• Durrat al-Muwaḥḥidīn wa-Dirrat al-Mulḥidīn by Ibrāhīm ibn Shaykh al-Islām Mūsā al-Ḥalabī, a pamphlet exhorting Sultan Bāyazīd II to take action against the persecution of Sunni Muslims under the Persian Safavids.
• Tuḥfat al-Akhyār by Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafā al-Ḥalabī, a supercommentary on al-Ḥaṣkafī's commentary al-Durr al-Mukhtār on Tanwīr al-Abṣār wa-Jāmi‛ al-Biḥār by al-Timirtāshī.
• Risāla fī Mas’alat al-Jabl min Awā’il Sharḥ Qāḍī-Zāda ‛alā Mulakhkhaṣ al-Jaghmīnī, a text composed in 1411 by another, otherwise unidentified Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī. The text is a treatise on an issue brought up by Qāḍī-Zāda in his commentary on the Mulakhkhaṣ of al-Jaghmīnī.

  The ''Multaqā''