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Muhyiddin al-Kāfiyajī was born in Saruhan district of Manisa and received primary education in madrasahs in the region cities such as Manisa, Kutahya and Bursa. He took lessons from such as Mollā Fanārī, Muhammed al-Hāfī al-Harawī, Shaikh Wājid, Muhammed al-Bazzāzī al-Kardarī and Shams b. ‘Anazī who were among the outstanding teachers of his time. After growing up in Anatolia, he traveled to regions such as Crimea, Syria and Egypt and finally settled in Cairo. He taught in madrasahs in Cairo and trained many students. Among his students, Suyūtī and Sahāvī, who are important figures in the history of Islam, draw attention in particular. Both names conveyed some information about the life of their master. During his period, he became one of the most prominent scholars in linguistics, theology, logic and philosophy, as well as in religious sciences such as tafsīr and hadith. al-Kāfiyajī, who has a Hanafī-Māturīdī line, was accepted as the imam of the Hanafīs during his lifetime. His students say that their teacher wrote more than a hundred works in total, especially belonging to the field of ‘aqlī (philosophical and intellectual) sciences. In this study, we tried to analyze, evaluate, and translate his work called al-Hidāya li bayān al-khalq wa’l-takwīn, which we accept to belong to al-Kāfiyajī. The work is about the subject of creation and takwīn, which is an important issue of discussion between Māturīdī and Ash'arīs. We have tried to make both an examination of the subject and an evaluation of the work in the context of the subject. In our study, we have taken as a basis the only copy of the work that we can identify today, the copy in Dār al-Kutub al-Misriyya in Cairo.

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