The Legacy of a Literary Man in Islamic Legal Theory: Surūrī Chalabī's Criticisms in his Super-Commentary on al-Talwī? and His Arguments.

Al-Taftāzānī (d. 792/1390), a well-known theorist/theologian of the post-classical era of Islamic thought, not only elucidated the statements of Sadr al-sharīah in his āshiyah (super-commentary), titled al-Talwī, which he wrote on al-Tawī, but also introduced several criticisms against his arguments. Al-Taftāzānī's work, al- Talwī, was received with great interest by Ottoman scholars, who then composed many āshiyahs on it in the fifteenth century. Although the number of āshiyahs significantly diminished, the practice of āshiyah writing on al-Talwī continued in the sixteenth century. Surūrī Chalabī (d. 969/1562) was one of the scholars who penned a āshiyah on al-Talwī during this period. The literary works of Surūrī Chalabī have recently been the subject of numerous academic studies, yet his legacy in Islamic sciences has not received the same interest. This article, aiming to fill this gap in the literature, scrutinizes synchronically and diachronically the place of Surūrī's āshiyah on al-Talwī within the tradition of Ottoman āshiyah writing on al-Talwī and eventually demonstrates that Surūrī primarily dealt with the arguments and comments of asan Chalabī, a previous āshiyah author who commented on al-Talwī and criticized them in his argument-based āshiyah thus endeavors to position himself within the tradition of āshiyah writing of the previous century through asan Chalabī's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]