Mykhaylo Yakubovych
The National University of Ostroh Academy
Tafsīr Glosses in Ottoman Tradition
The lecture examines one of the most important developments of Islamic exegetical tradition of the Ottoman Empire, namely the writing of glosses (ḥawāshi) to both Classical and Post-Classical Qur’anic commentaries. Addressing the most popular works in that area (both manuscripts and published texts), composed between 14th and 18th centuries, the lecture focuses in particular on the writing process itself, features of the structure, hermeneutical features and scholarly function of glosses in the Ottoman intellectual tradition.
Mykhaylo Yakubovych is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Director of the Center for Islamic Studies at The National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine, where he also received his PhD. He is the author of the first complete translation of the Qur’ān into Ukrainian (four editions issued since 2013, among them one by Diyanet Işleri Başkanlığı in Turkey). Yakubovych held numerous academic fellowships in Poland (Warsaw University, Warsaw), Saudi Arabia (Academic Department, King Fahd Qur’an Printing Complex, Medina) and USA (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton). Currently, he is working on the history of Islamic intellectual traditions in Eastern Europe. His recent publications include monographs on the history of the Islam in Ukraine and intellectual traditions of the Crimean Khanate (Kyiv, 2016).