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Lutfullah al-Tawqani

لطف الله التوقاني

1499 CE · 904 AH

Molla Lutfi of Tokat — Mehmed II's keeper of the royal library, set by Bayezid to Murad's madrasa then one of the Eight; he wept while dictating the Sahih but was long-tongued against his peers until Rum's scholars charged him with unbelief and had him executed on Molla Khatib-zada's ruling, repeating the shahada — it was said — even after his head fell; works: Sharh al-Tali', glosses on al-Sayyid al-Sharif's Sharh al-Fattah, the 'Seven Difficulties', and a treatise enumerating a hundred sciences; d. 904 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
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 · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi

Development of law, theology and institutions

Place in the story

  • JuristTradition

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

Overview

Lutfullah ibn Hasan al-Tawqani al-Rumi al-Hanafi, known as Mawlana Lutfi. A Hanafi scholar of Turkish origin and upbringing, who studied under the scholars of his age. 2

Death

He died in 904 AH, which corresponds to 1499 CE. 2

People and things also explored

Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 439-440
  2. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.701
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Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)

In the lexicon, add is gripping a thing with the teeth and holding it. If a person bites another without right and a wound results, the biter must pay the damages for the wound, assessed as a just award by experts. If one man bites another's hand and the bitten man pulls it free so that the biter's front teeth fall out, most jurists hold that there is no liability, relying on a prophetic judgement in such a case; the Shafi'is limit this to a bitten man who chose the easiest means of release, and the preferred Maliki view requires compensation.