Shamsaddin Timurtash？’s Treatise Risalah fi’n-Nuq？d

Shamsaddin Timurtash？, a prominent Hanaf？ jurist, wrote a legal treatise entitled briefly Risalah fi’n-Nuq？d, on monetary inconsistencies of his time. Husamuddin Affane from Quds University studied the treatise and published it as a book. The purpose of this paper is to introduce Risalah fi’n-Nuq？d and to examine the important historical data that will allow us to understand this legal text. In the treatise, Timurtash？ classifies and analyzes exchange issues generated by the debasements implemented by the Ottoman government in the late 16th century. Among others, Timurtash？ addresses the legal dispute on how to make payments when coins are taken out of circulation or withdrawn from the market, or when the coin values change. He emphasizes that it is still an ongoing problem among his contemporary colleagues. To eliminate this dispute, he suggests following the Hanaf？ methodology of fatwa