THE KADI WHO BUILT THE KHALIDIYYA LIBRARY IN QUDS: SHEIKH RAGIB AL-KHALIDI -KUDÜS HÂLİDİYYE KÜTÜPHANESİ’Nİ KURAN KADI: ŞEYH RÂGIB EL HÂLİDÎ (original) (raw)

2023, III. INTERNATIONAL JERUSALEM SYMPOSIUM-III. ULUSLARARASI KUDÜS SEMPOZYUMU KUDÜS’TE İZ BIRAKAN ALİMLER “THE SCHOLARS LEAVING A TRACE ON JERUSALEM”-

Jerusalem expresses its importance in many languages throughout history. It expresses this both with his historical and cultural works and with the scholars who were born, lived, and served in this blessed place. Sheikh Râgıb el-Khâlidî (1866-1952), one of these scholars, trained many scholars who were descended from the Companion Halid bin Velid and who served as chief, judge, regent, and clerk in the sharia court in Jerusalem. As in the last periods of the Ottoman Empire. He is from the Halidis family, which is one of the prominent families of Jerusalem today. Sheikh Ragib al-Khalidi was born and educated in Jerusalem and served as a judge in this city as a jurist as well as various administrative duties. Sheikh Râgıb el-Khalidi, who left his mark on the city of Jerusalem socially and culturally apart from his scientific and legal background, gave his name to the Khalidiyye Library, which is located in an old Mamluk imarah next to the Silsile Gate, one of the main gates of the Masjid al-Aqsa. It was established in 1900 as the first private library. The Khalidiyye Library, which was established to collect valuable manuscripts and printed works from different people and places of Jerusalem and present them to the public, today contains nearly 1200 manuscripts, the oldest of which is more than 5 thousand years old, thousands of printed books, most of them from the 19th to the beginning of the 18th century. It is home to valuable resources from many languages, such as genealogy archives of the Ottoman period, Ottoman period edicts, endowments, and various original copies. The Khalidiyye Library, which had been closed for a long time and had a difficult time during the British colonial period after the First World War and the current occupation period after the Ottomans left Jerusalem, was restored and opened in 1995 for use by the public and researchers. In our study, information will be given about the life of Sheikh Râgıb el-Khâlidî, a jurist and kadi, for whom there is no specific study in Turkish literature. Information will be given about the manuscripts and printed works in the field of fiqh in the Khalidiyya Library, which is one of the most important libraries in Jerusalem, both in terms of its location and the valuable works it contains.