The translation of Menakib-i İmam-i Azam by Muhammed Bin Ömer El-Halebi

This study is a linguistic analysis of first seventy three leafs of a work called Tercüme-i Menakıb-ı mam-ı Azam written in H. 824 (1431) By studying this kind of a work written in old Anatolian Turkish written Language, it is aimed at contributing to history of Turkish Language Literature Gramer, comperative text research, index study etc haven`t been done on Tercüme-i Menakıb-ı mam-ı Azam. However, as mam-ı Azam indicates great mam as Ebu Hanife, it is shown as a source work in many slam Law. The most important reason to study this work is it`s being valvable due to language used besides biographic value. The study sonsists of two main chapters except fort he introduction chapter. In the introduction chapter life of the author Muhammed bin Muhammed el- Kerderi and his works, then the tife of the translator and at the same time the author of the work who contributes to Turkish Language whit his translation, the theme of the work, other translations to Turkish and other editions of the work are introduced. Chapter one deals with a detailed text analysis in respect of grammatical points such as phonology morphology and syntax accompanied by several examples taken from the text. In the second chapter there is a comparison and transcription of edition of the work chosen from the available editions in stanbul libraries and the addition supposed to be the basic edition. Chapter second consists of indexes of the words with their meanings and meaning differences used in the book. There is an alphabetical index of the words, text persecution numbers of word affixes, meanings of the words and person name list.