The Study of Qara Saydī al-Hamīdī’s Treatise on al-Umūr al-‘Āmmah Discussions with its Critical Edition and its Translation into Turkish

The essential attributes of being qua being as the main problems of metaphysics has been treated under the title of al-umūr al-āmmah sections after engaging Kalām with Islamic peripatetics. Concepts such as being, unity, multiplicity, quiddity and causality has been accepted as general things and the seperate titles of their secondary problems. Postclassical period thinkers beside trying to solve aforementioned problems started to think on the concept al-umūr al- ’āmmah itself and consider it as a philosophical problem. This case produced what I call al-umūr al-āmmah discussions in post-classical period of Islamic philosophy including Ottoman thinkers. In this article, I will try to treat al-umūr al-āmmah discussions over Ottoman philosopher Kara Saydī al-Hamīdī’s (d. 1507) treatise on this subject as well as to present its critical edition and translation into Turkish language.