Muṣṭafa ibn Muḥammad al-Aqḥiṣārī

Risāla fī ḥukm al-qahwa wa 'd-duḫan wa'l-ašriba. text edited, with an introduction, Serbo-Croatian translation and commentaries, by Nevena Krstic

Abstract

The Arabic text published here in facsimiles, with its Serbo-Croatian translation, is a Treatise on Coffee, Tobacco and Drinking by Muṣṭafa b. Muḥammad al- Aqḥiṣārī, who lived in the 12^th c. A. H./18^th c. A. D. and died in 1169/1755-6. He occupied the post of a mufti run his native towm Aqḥiṣār, the present day Prusac in Bosnia, Yugoslavia. He wrote seven works in Arabic on various subjects, all of them listed here in the introduction and none of which was known to Broctkelmann or other Arabists and none of which was published so far. The editor and translator chose this Treatise for publication as the most interesting among his works for the mood of the age on a hotly disputed subject. In the ~introduction she surveyed other main literature on the subject in Yugoslavia and abroad, and, along with brief ·commentaries, identified names and works mentioned in the Treatirse in the apparatus which accompanied the translation. The codex which contains four manuscripts of the author's works, among them the Treatirse published here, is in Ghazi Ḫusrev-Beg's Library in Sarajevo (R-761), the manuscripts of his two other works are in the University Library in Bratislava, while one is konown by title only.