Abstract:

This research discusses the risala named Risâla fi’t-tajwîd which was written by one of the Ottoman scholars, Sâdık b. Yusuf Halîfa. There is no study about the risala which was written briefly in order to indicate the common mistakes (laḥn) during the recitation of the Qur’ân. This article is planned as three parts and its first part is about the life of Sâdık b. Yusuf Halîfa, his masters, his pupils and a brief information about his books. The second part, which can be named as an analysis and an examination, comprises the naming of the book, its scope and its belonging to the author issue, the author’s method in this risala, its primary sources, the compilation aim and the content of the book. Furthermore, the detected written copies of the book and the nüskha (the copy) which were based on and the followed method during the investigation were included elaborately in the second part. The third which is the last part is about the tahqîq of the risala. It is aimed that this risala, which is especially about the nature of the tajwîd discipline and its necessity during the recitation of the Qur’ân, the conceptual field of the laḥn and its versions, would illuminate the present about the detection and the correction of the mistakes about makhraj of the letters and their attributes.

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