Mustafa ibn Muhammad al-Aqhisari (Pruščak): Rasprava o kafi, duhanu i pićima
Mustafa b. Muhammad al-Aqhisari: Risala fi hukm al-qahwa wa'd-duhan wa'l-ašriba

Summary/Abstract: The Arabic text published here in facsimiles, with its Serbo-Croatian translation, is a Treatise on Coffee, Tobacco and Drinking by Mustafa b. Muhammad al-Aqhisari, who lived in the 12th e. A. H./ 18th c. A. D. and died in 1169/1755-6. He occupied the post of a mufti run his native town Aqhisar, the present-day Prusac in Bosnia, Yugoslavia. He wrote seven works in Arabic on various subjects, all of them listed here im the inroduction and none of which was known to Brockelmann 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 surveyeid other main literature on the subject in Yugoslavia and abroad, and, along with brief commentaries, identified names and works mentioned in the Treatise in the apparatus which accompanies the translation. The codex which contains four manuscripts of the author's works, among them the Treatise published here, is im Ghazi Husrev-Beg's Library in Sarajevo (R-761), the marnuscripts of his two other woriks are in the University Library in Bratislava, while one is known by title only.

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