22 results for “ottoman”
Clear filterOttoman Sultan Mehmed II who conquered Constantinople in 857 AH (14...
Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and author of Tuhfat al-Muhtaj, one of the two most relied-upon late Shafi'i fiqh references. Also wrote az-Zawajir on major sins and al
Known as the 'Little Shafi'i' (ash-Shafi'i as-Saghir) for his authority in the school. Author of Nihayat al-Muhtaj, one of the two most authoritative late Shafi
...tion al-Fatawa al-Khayriyyah became a standard reference in Ottoman courts. He was the foremost Hanafi authority of Greater Syr...
Palestinian Hanbali jurist who settled in Cairo. Author of Dalil at-Talib and Ghayat al-Muntaha, key Hanbali fiqh texts that are still relied upon for the mu'ta
Ottoman Hanafi jurist and author of ad-Durr al-Mukhtar, a concise y...
Ottoman-era Hanafi scholar who served as deputy to the last Shaykh ...
Last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Caliphate and a fierce defender of the Hanafi-Maturidi trad...
Ottoman Sufi scholar and mufassir, author of 'Ruh al-Bayan,' a comp...
Ottoman Hanafi scholar, author of 'Bariqa Mahmudiyyah,' a commentar...
Palestinian Shafi'i judge and prolific author of works defending traditional Islamic scholarship and collecting prophetic praises.
A 19th-century Iraqi scholar and mufti of Baghdad (1217-1270 AH), author of the encyclopedic tafsir Ruh al-Ma'ani — one of the most comprehensive Quranic commen
Chief Mufti (Sheikh al-Islam) of the Ottoman Empire for 30 years; author of a major Quran commentary.
Ottoman polymath and bibliographer; his Kashf al-Zunun is the most ...
Ottoman admiral and cartographer; his 1513 world map includes what ...
Ottoman astronomer and mathematician; director of Samarkand observa...
The leading Hanafi jurist of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II. His Durar al-Hukkam and Mir'...
An Ottoman jurist and theologian, author of Nazm al-Faraid (a summary ...
One of the greatest Islamic scholars of Aceh (Indonesia). His Sirat al-Mustaqim was the first comprehensive Islamic legal text written in Malay.
Turkish Islamic scholar whose Risale-i Nur (Epistles of Light) is one of the most widely read Islamic works of the 20th century.
Turkish Islamic scholar and shaykh who revived Islamic learning in Turkey under the secular republic.
Egyptian Hanafi jurist, author of al-Bahr al-Ra'iq and the legal maxims al-Ashbah wal-Naza'ir.