Molla Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Khatib al-Rumi

الملا محيي الدين ابن الخطيب الرومي

between 1495 and 1496 CE · 901 AH

Of the famous Rum mawali — his father Molla Taj al-Din, his teachers 'Ali al-Tusi and Khidr Beg; rose through the offices until Mehmed II made him his own tutor; hashiyas on al-Sayyid al-Sharif's Sharh al-Tajrid and on his gloss on the Kashshaf; d. 901 1.

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Roles
Scholar · teacher
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia
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Life in time

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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-Haqq al-Sunbati · Molla 'Abd al-Karim al-Rumi · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian

Education

Summary

Mulla Muhyi al-Din Muhammad b. Ibrahim al-Rumi al-Hanafi, famed as Ibn al-Khatib, among the renowned scholars of Rum; he read under his father Mulla Taj al-Din, the 'allama 'Ali al-Tusi and Mulla Khidr Bey, held offices and rose in them until Sultan Muhammad b. 'Uthman made him his own teacher; he wrote glosses on al-Sayyid al-Sharif's commentary on the Tajrid and on the Kashshaf's gloss, and more; he died in 901. 1

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Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 425
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