Sari Kurz’s (D: 923 AH) Answers to Qara Sidi’s (D: 913 AH) Questions On Miftah Al-Ulum - Study And Investigation

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  • Ali Hamid Safah Department of Arabic Language, College of Education for Humanities, Tikrit University, Salahuddin, Iraq Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25130/jaa.17.61.13

Keywords:

The Key to The Sciences, Qara Sidi, Sari Kurz, Youssef Al-Qarasawi

Abstract

The research is a valuable handwritten copy of the author (Nur al-Din Yusuf al-Qarasuyi al-Balaksari Sari Kurz al-Hanafi al-Uthmani). The research aims to stand on solving some problems in the science of rhetoric, and it is answers to the questions of Qara Sidi on the explanation of al-Miftah by al-Tifzani, in which he regulated the problems of the science of semantics and speech in it. The author wrote his letter in response to a request from Bayezid Khan bin Muhammad al-Fatih, and the letter consisted of three names, the first: Sari Kurz’s answers to the questions of Hamid Li Qara Sidi, the second: Solving Qara Sidi’s doubts in the meanings, the third: Sari Kurz’s answers to the questions of Qara Sidi, and this name was mentioned at the end of the manuscript.

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2025-12-11

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Sari Kurz’s (D: 923 AH) Answers to Qara Sidi’s (D: 913 AH) Questions On Miftah Al-Ulum - Study And Investigation. (2025). Journal of Al-farahidi’s Arts, 17(61), 181-198. https://doi.org/10.25130/jaa.17.61.13