Taşköprüzade or Taşköprülüzade Ahmet (),

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of Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (;

Bursa Bursa () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region, Bursa is one of the industrial centers of the country. Most of ...

, 3 December 1495 –

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, 16 April 1561), was an

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish (, ; ) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian. It was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. ...

historian and

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living during the reign of

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I (; , ; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver () in his own realm, was the List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman sultan between 1520 a ...

, who was famous for his great biographical encyclopedia titled ''Al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya fī ʿUlamāʾ al-Dawla al-ʿUthmāniyya'' ().

Life

The family was known as ''Taşköprülüler'' because Ahmet's grandfather had been a professor at the Muzafferiye ''

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'' of Hayreddin Halil in

Taşköprü, Kastamonu Taşköprü ( "stone bridge") is a town in Kastamonu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is the seat of Taşköprü District.

. Taşköprülüzade received his first education from his father, Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafā, and his uncle, Kemaleddin Kasım, in

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and

, and completed his studies in

. He was appointed to the Oruç Pasha Madrasah in Dimetoka in 1525, and then to the Hacı Hüseyinzade Madrasah in Istanbul. Later, he worked as a professor in various ''madrassa'' in

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and

Edirne Edirne (; ), historically known as Orestias, Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the Edirne Province, province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second c ...

. He was appointed

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(''qāḍī'') of Bursa in 1545, and of Istanbul in 1551. A sight problem led to an early retirement from public service in 1554, but he continued working on the publication of his writings.

Works

*''Al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya fī ʿUlamāʾ al-Dawla al-ʿUthmāniyya'' (), a biographical encyclopedia on the life and works of 552 scholars and sheikhs from the first Ottoman ruler,

Osman I Osman I or Osman Ghazi (; or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4) was the eponymous founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as a bey, beylik or emirate). While initially a small Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman principality during Osman's lifetime, h ...

, to

, and is the primary source for the lives of scholars and scientists under the reign of

Mehmed II Mehmed II (; , ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (; ), was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481. In Mehmed II's first reign, ...

. *''Şaka'ikü'n-Nu'maniye fi-Ulemai'd-Devletü'l-Osmaniye'' (Turkish ed.), or ''Şakaik-ı Nu'maniye ve zeyilleri'' (Turkish ed.). * ''Key to Happiness and the Lamp of Lordship'' (; encyclopedia in Arabic. The great bibliographic encyclopedia '' Kashf al-Zunun'' of

Kâtip Çelebi Kâtip Çelebi () or Ḥājjī Khalīfa () (1017 AH/1609 AD – 1068 AH/1657 AD) was a Turkish polymath and author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He compiled a vast universal bibliographic encyclopaedia of books and sciences, the '' Kaşf ...

enlarged on the ''Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda'', and in turn became the basis of Arabic-Latin and French translations by the European orientalists

Gustav Leberecht Flügel Gustav Leberecht Flügel (February 18, 1802 – July 5, 1870) was a German orientalist. Life After attending high school in his native city Flügel studied theology and philosophy in Leipzig. He soon discovered his passion for oriental langua ...

and

Barthélemy d'Herbelot Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville (14 December 16258 December 1695) was a French oriental studies, Orientalist. Bibliography Born in Paris, he was educated at the University of Paris, and devoted himself to the study of oriental languages, go ...

, published in several volumes with the titles ''Bibliographical and Encyclopaedic Lexicon'' and ''Bibliothèque Orientale'' respectively. *''Miftâhü’s-Sa‘âde'' (Arabic), or ''Misbâh-üs-Siyâde fî Mevduât-ul-Ulûm,'' (Arabic); treats of the sciences of the period, and the works and writers of each branch. *''Mevzuat ül-Ulum'' (), or ''Mevḍuʿât-ül-Ulûm'' (Turkish ed.), 'Fields of Science'; (Turkish ed.); Translation by his son, Kemâleddîn Mehmed Efendi. *''Al-Risālah fī al-Qaḍāʼ wa-al-Qadar'' () (Traité du décret et de l'arrêt divins) *''Osmanlı bilginleri'' (Istanbul, 2007); Sufi biography. * ''Nawādir al-Akhbār fī Manāqib al-Akhyār''

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