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Muṣṭafā Ḍarīr (seventh-century AH/fourteenth-century CE, born in Erzurum) was a Turkish-speaking scholar. His epithet ḍarīr means 'blind' and he is believed to have been blind from birth. According to Fahi̇r İz, "Ḍarīr shows remarkable mastery of ʿarūḍ; his verse is fluent and he often reaches the heights of lyric poetry. His pleasant and simple prose is one of the best specimens of early Turkish narrative style".

Works

Muṣṭafā Ḍarīr composed the following works:

• Tarjumat al-Ḍarīr (a five-volume Turkish-language adaptation and expansion of Abu al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī's version of Ibn Isḥāq's sīra, commissioned by the then sultan of Egypt, al-Manṣūr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī, and completed in 790 AH/1388 CE).
• A translation and adaptation of Futūḥ al-Shām by al-Wāqidī, which Muṣṭafā Ḍarīr completed in 795 AH/1392 CE while in Aleppo.
• A translation of a work known as The Hundred Ḥadīths
• Yūsuf we Zulaykhā (a mathnawī)

References

1. ^ Fahi̇r İz, 'Sheyyād Ḥamza', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by Paul Bearman and others, 2nd edn (Ledein: Brill, 1960-2005), doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_1723.

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