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At a glance

Roles: Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Anatolia
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Abd al-Karim Khwarazmi · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Yusuf Efendi Akhi-zade, an Ottoman scholar of jurisprudence, also known as Akhi Qalbi. He died at the beginning of the tenth century AH. ¹

The source says he died in 905 AH (1500 CE). It comes from one source and needs a second. ¹

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Akhi-zade Yusuf Efendi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/akhi-zade-yusuf-efendi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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The seven ahruf

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