Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

portions were in Latin. Before that, it was translated into French
in 1112 [1700 A.D.] At exactly the same time it was printed in
Egypt, too. Lastly, together with its two supplementaries, it was
printed in Arabic in Istanbul between 1360-1366 [1941-1947 A.D.].
The books are in the order of the Arabic alphabet. Four of them
were sold at the libraries of the Ministry of Education in Turkey.
The two-volumed Arabic book Asmâ-ul-muallifîn by Ismâ’îl
Pasha was printed in Istanbul in 1370 and 1374 [1951 and 1955
A.D]. In these two volumes, the authors of the books in Kashf-uz-
Zunûn and its supplementaries are written in the order of the
Arabic alphabet and under each name are the books written by the
owner of the name. Today, another very useful and valuable book
listing only the Arabic Islamic books existing all over the world
and their authors and in which library they can be found and at
which call number they exist in each country is Carl
Brockelmann’s German book Geschichte der Arabischen
Literatur, which was printed in Leiden in 1362 [1943 A.D.]. The
book Miftâh-us-sa’âda by Tashköprüzâde Ahmad Efendî
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, the author of the book Shaqâyiq-i
Nu’mâniyya, which gives the biographies of the scholars educated
in the Ottoman Empire, defines and explains nearly five hundred
branches of knowledge and gives information about the books
written in every branch of knowledge and their authors. His son,
Kemâladdîn Muhammad, translated this book from Arabic to
Turkish. It lists the Islamic savants and their works, and he gave it
the name Mawdû’ât-ul-’ulûm. This book was printed at the
printing office of the newspaper Iqdâm in 1313. It is available in
bookstores. After seeing Islam’s twenty main branches of
knowledge and its eighty–one sub–branches and the scholars of
these branches and the books which each of them wrote untiringly
and perseverently, an understanding and reasonable person
cannot help admiring the great number of Islamic scholars and
their skill at diving into the ocean of knowledge.
[In these books of theirs, refuting through documents and
argumentations the words of naturalists and materialists and the
absurdities which non-Muslims wanted to inject into Islam, they
silenced them all, and thus extinguished the fire of instigation and
corruption prepared by enemies of Islam. Moreover, exposing the
shame of those who tried to give wrong meanings to the Qur’ân
and who strove to prepare defiled translations with evil intentions,
they, on the one hand, clearly wrote one by one all the facts that
have to be believed, and, on the other hand, very correctly
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