Hasan Kafi Pruščak (November/December 1544 – 9 October 1615) was a Bosnian

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named aft ...

scholar, philosopher, historian, writer, poet,

Maturidi Māturīdī theology or Māturīdism ( ar, الماتريدية: ''al-Māturīdiyyah'') is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Persian Muslim scholar, Ḥanafī jurist, reformer (''Mujaddid''), and scholastic th ...

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

and "

qadi A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...

" (judge) who studied in Bosnia and

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. He is considered to be the most significant figure of the area's scientific, cultural and intellectual life in the 16th and early 17th centuries, as well as one of the most important

Bosniak The Bosniaks ( bs, Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, cu ...

thinkers.

Birth

He was born in 1544 in

Prusac Prusac ( sr-cyrl, Прусац) is a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is one of the oldest villages in the Skopaljska valley located in the upstream area of the Vrbas ...

, studied in

, and from 1583 he was a

judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility an ...

of Prusac.

Works

Basis of Wisdom on the Organization of the World is the most significant of his seventeen works. In this work, Pruščak deals with the key issues of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

at the time and the study was meant to: "help the rulers, guide the viziers, be a role-model for the wise and support for the poor."

Background

Pruščak hailed from the village

near the Bosnian town of Donji Vakuf. He attended elementary school in Prusac before relocating to

where he studied for nine years. He returned to his hometown in 1575. He went on the

Hajj The Hajj (; ar, حَجّ '; sometimes also spelled Hadj, Hadji or Haj in English) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried ...

to Mecca in 1591.

References

Hanafis Maturidis 16th-century Muslim theologians People from Donji Vakuf Bosnian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire Bosnia and Herzegovina poets Bosniak writers Sociologists from the Ottoman Empire People from the Ottoman Empire of Bosnian descent 16th-century Bosnian people 17th-century Bosnian people 1544 births 1615 deaths 17th-century Muslim theologians {{BosniaHerzegovina-bio-stub

Birth

Works

Background

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