Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Fanari

Mawla Muhyi al-Din Ahmad ibn Mawla Ala al-Din Ali al-Fanari al-Hanafi. He studied with the scholars of his age, then travelled to Persia and read with the scholars of Samarqand and Bukhara. He returned to Anatolia, where Sultan Selim gave him the madrasa of Vizier Qasim Pasha ¹.

He loved the Sufis, especially the Wafa'i order, and was devoted to learning. He had read many books and remembered most of their rare and notable passages. He knew histories and the stories of the righteous by heart. He wrote "Tahdhib al-Kafiyya" on grammar and a commentary on it, glosses on Mawla-zada's commentary on Hidayat al-Hikma, glosses on the commentary on al-Tajrid by al-Sayyid, and a commentary on Surat al-Duha called "Tanwir al-Duha". He died in the year 940 ¹.