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Shams al-Din al-Fanari

شمس الدين الفناري

c. 1431 CE · c. 834 AH

Shams al-Din al-Fanari the Ottoman polymath, author of the hundred-science riddle he wrote — per his son — to test the scholars of Qaraman who denied his merit; he died in 834 1.

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Sharaf al-Din Abdullah Ibn Muflih · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan

Overview

Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Hamza al-Fanari, an Ottoman scholar, author of "Unmudhaj al-Ulum". 2

What Haji Khalifa relates

He composed a hundred questions on a hundred arts, and posed riddles about the names of the arts as a test for the excellent scholars of his age. 2

He travelled to Qaramān and wrote them there as a test for its scholars, who had been denying his merit. 2

He died in 834 AH. 2

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p. 665
  2. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p.665
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