Abu al-Su'ud Afandi

أبو السعود أفندي

c. 1492 CE · 898 AH – c. August 1574 CE · Jumada I 982 AH

The Ottoman shaykh al-islam Abu al-Su'ud Afandi, whose Irshad al-aql al-salim became the most celebrated tafsir since al-Baydawi's 1. Shadharat al-Dhahab dates his birth to 898 and his death to early Jumada I 982 2.

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Şaban-ı Veli · Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, shaykh al-Islam of Damascus · Baba Shah Esfahani · al-Sha'rani · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid

Overview

Abu al-Su'ud Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Imadi al-Iskilibi, mufti of the Ottoman state, known as Khoja Chelebi. He is the author of the commentary "Irshad al-Aql al-Salim", and was so well known that he was called "the preacher of the commentators". 3

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p. 348-349
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
  3. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p.348-349
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