At a glance
- Roles
- theologian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Anatolia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ahmad ibn Musa Shams al-Din al-Rumi al-Hanafi, known as al-Khayali, a scholar of doctrine. He was a pupil of Shaykh Khidr Bik, and taught at the Sultaniyya madrasa in Bursa and then in Iznik. He was born in 829 AH (1425 CE) and died at Iznik in 862 AH (1458 CE), according to the "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters". 1
People and things also explored
The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin· The hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoning· Islamic eschatology· Reason and heart· The Throne (al-Arsh)· Al-din al-qayyim (the upright religion)· Absolute unseen (al-ghayb al-mutlaq)· «Be, and it is» (kun fa-yakun): creation by command, not by a mould
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Khayali Ahmad ibn Musa Shams al-Din”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-khayali-ahmad-ibn-musa-shams-al-din/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-18.