The term tafsir, which means interpretation, explanation and expansion of the meaning, is the work written to explain the verses of the Quran or the branch of religious science that explains the meaning of the Quran. The Quran has a very rich content in terms of both subject and meaning. That's why it doesn't seem possible for people who don't have good knowledge to understand the orders and prohibitions in it. For this reason, tafsir has been seriously needed since the early days of Islam. During the Ottoman period, tafsir books were written in Persian as well as in Turkish and Arabic. One of the Persian tafsir books was written by Ibrahim b. Dervis-i Bukhari, about whose life there is no information. This work of Ibrahim-i Bukhari consists of the commentary of the Surah Qadr. This work, which is a literary commentary, was dedicated to Semiz Ali Pasha, one of the Ottoman Grand Viziers. Before writing his work, the author read the interpretation books written about the Surah Qadr and tried to rewrite the Surah in question in line with the wishes of his friends and colleagues. In the work, verses, hadiths and poems were used. In this study, the work called Tafsir of the Surah al-Qadr, written in Persian by Ibrahim-i Bukhari, which is in the Hagia Sophia collection of the Suleymaniye Library (nr. 00411), will be discussed in detail for the first time.
Persian tafsir, surah Qadr, Ottoman Period, Ibrahim-i Bukhari, Semiz Ali Pasha.