Muhammad-Amin (Khazakhilav) ar-Ruchi. A Study of the Biography of a Dagestani Medieval Scientist

Authors

  • Шахбан Магомедович Хапизов Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of Dagestan Scientific Center, RAS, 12, ul. Daniyalova, Makhachkala, 367000, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu13.2016.407

Abstract

This article explores the life of a medieval Dagestani scholar Muhammadamin (Khazakhilav). He is known as a scientist in natural sciences and astronomy. It has been established that he was a teacher of the most prominent scholars of Dagestan of the 17th and 18th centuries (Muhammad al-Kuduki, Damadan al-Mukhi et al.). The object of this study is the origin and the main stages of the life of the scientist. We studied the following issues involving his teachers, students and research interests. The article describes the epitaph on the tombstone of Khazakhilav. The author was also able to detect the poetic work of the scientist. In his poems Muhammad-Amin ar-Ruchi speaks of the impermanence of life and calls one to turn to Islam as a means for a person to save his soul. To recreate the biography of the scientist and the author we used oral tradition, preserved in the villages of Risor and Tlenserukh (now Charodinsky District, Republic of Dagestan).

Keywords:

Dagestan, mathematics, astronomy, epigraphy, Khazakhilav

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
 

References

Литература

Мусаев М. А. Традиции изучения и преподавания астрономии в Дагестане // Восток. Афро-Азиатские общества: история и современность. 2011. No 3. С. 56–65.

Каяев Али. Тараджим улама-и Дагистан (Биографии дагестанских ученых) // Рукописный фонд ИИАЭ ДНЦ РАН. Ф. 25. Оп. 1. Д. 1 (на тюрк. яз.).

Айтберов Т. М. Памятные записи из Сборника No 531 и др. // Письменные памятники Дагестана ХVIII–XIX вв. Махачкала: Институт истории, языка и литературы Дагестанского филиала АН СССР, 1989. С. 137–140.

Мусаев М. А. Материалы к биографии Мухаммада, сына Мусы ал-Кудуки (первая часть) // Вестник Института ИАЭ. 2014. No 3. С. 61–70.

Мухамадов К. ЧIарада районалъул исламияб тарих. МахIачхъала: Ихлас, 2009. 310 гь. (на авар. яз.).

Айтберов Т. М. Обзор некоторых рукописных собраний Дагестана // Рукописная и печатная книга в Дагестане. Махачкала: Институт истории, языка и литературы Дагестанского филиала АН СССР, 1991. С. 144–161.

Айтберов Т. М., Абдулкеримов М. М. Обзор некоторых рукописных собраний Дагестана // Изучение истории и культуры Дагестана: археографический аспект. Махачкала: Институт истории, языка и литературы Дагестанского филиала АН СССР, 1988. С. 44–65.

Мусаев М. А. Дагестанские арабографические биографические и историко-биографические сочинения второй половины XIX — начала XX века и место в них ученого-богослова XVII–XVIII вв. Дамадана ал-Мухи // Исламоведение. 2012. No 4. С. 88–96.

Сергеева Г. А. Арчинцы. М.: Наука, 1967. 192 с.

Хапизов Ш. М., Шехмагомедов М. Г. Опыт исследования биографии дагестанского алима (Талхат-кади из Ириба) по местным письменным источникам // Вестник Дагестанского государственного университета. 2015. Т. 30, вып. 4. C. 45–52.

Гусейнов Г. Убри и Убра. Махачкала: Дагестанское книжное издательство, 2008. 195 с.

Хапизов Ш. М. Тлейсерух (Кьесер): Историко-этнографический очерк. Махачкала: Деловой мир, 2008. 380 с.


References

Musaev M. A. Traditsii izucheniia i prepodavaniia astronomii v Dagestane [The tradition of learning and teaching of astronomy in Dagestan]. Vostok. Afro-Aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost’ [East. Afro-Asian Society: Past and Present], 2011, no. 3, pp. 56–65. (In Russian)

Kayaev Ali. Biographies of Dagestani scientists. Manuscript collection of IHAE DSC RAS, f. 25, inv. 1, d. 1. (in Turkic)

Aitberov T. M. [Memorable entries from Collection No. 531 et al.]. Pis’mennye pamiatniki Dagestana VIII–XIX vv. [Written monuments of Dagestan XVIII–XIX centuries]. Makhachkala, Institute of history, language and literature of the Dagestan branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1989, pp. 137–140. (In Russian)

Musaev M. A. Materialy k biografii Mukhammada, syna Musy al-Kuduki (pervaia chast’) [Materials for the biography of Muhammad, son of Musa al-Kuduki (first part)]. Vestnik Instituta IAE [Bulletin of the Institute of HAE], 2014, no. 3, pp. 61–70. (In Russian)

Mukhamadov K. Islamic history of Charodinsky District. Makhachkala, Ikhlas, 2009. 310 p. (in Avar)

Aitberov T. M. [A review of some manuscript collections of Dagestan]. Rukopisnaia i pechatnaia kniga v Dagestane [Handwritten and printed book in Dagestan]. Makhachkala, Institute of history, language and literature of the Dagestan branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1991, pp. 144–161. (In Russian)

Aitberov T. M., Abdulkerimov M. M. [A review of some manuscript collections of Dagestan]. Izuchenie istorii i kul’tury Dagestana: arkheograficheskii aspekt [The study of the history and culture of Dagestan: archeographic aspect]. Makhachkala, Institute of history, language and literature of the Dagestan branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1988, pp. 44–65. (In Russian)

Musaev M. A. Dagestanskie arabograficheskie biograficheskie i istoriko-biograficheskie sochineniia vtoroi poloviny XIX — nachala XX veka i mesto v nikh uchenogo-bogoslova XVII–XVIII vv. Damadana al-Mukhi [Dagestanian arabographic biographical and historic-biographical writings of the second half of XIX — early XX century and place in them Damadan Al-Mukhi — a scientist-theologian of XVII–XVIII centuries]. Islamovedenie [Islamic Studies], 2012, no. 4, pp. 88–96. (In Russian)

Sergeeva G. A. Archintsy [Archins]. Мoscow, Nauka Publ., 1967. 192 p. (In Russian)

Khapizov Sh.M., Shekhmagomedov M. G. Opyt issledovaniia biografii dagestanskogo alima (Talkhat-kadi iz Iriba) po mestnym pis’mennym istochnikam [Experience in research of biography Dagestani alim (Talhat-Kadi from Irib) by local written sources]. Vestnik Dagestanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Bulletin of the Dagestan State University], 2015, vol. 30, issue 4, pp. 45–52. (In Russian)

Guseinov G. Ubri i Ubra [Ubri and Ubra]. Makhachkala, Dagestan Publishing, 2008. 195 p. (In Russian)

Khapizov Sh. M. Tleiserukh (K’eser): Istoriko-etnograficheskii ocherk [Tleyserukh (Keser): historicethnographic essay]. Makhachkala, Delovoi mir, 2008. 380 p. (In Russian)

Downloads

Published

2016-12-20

How to Cite

Хапизов, Ш. М. (2016). Muhammad-Amin (Khazakhilav) ar-Ruchi. A Study of the Biography of a Dagestani Medieval Scientist. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, (4), 65–71. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu13.2016.407

Issue

No. 4 (2016): Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 13. Asian Studies. African Studies

Section

History and source studies

License

Articles of "Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies" are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.