Dawud al-Qaysari lived circa 1260 to circa 1350 and was an early Ottoman Sufi scholar, philosopher and mystic, born in Kayseri in central Anatolia and a student of the Iranian scholar Abd al-Razzaq Kashani, who died in 1329. He authored more than a dozen philosophical texts, several still important textbooks in Shia religious schools, the most significant being his commentary on Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam and his criticism of Ibn al-Farid's critics; Sultan Orhan Gazi built a school for him in the town of Iznik, the first Ottoman state-established medrese.
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NationalityOttoman Empire (Historical) 1 BirthplaceKayseri, central Anatolia 1 Sources
1. Dawūd al-Qayṣarī, Wikipedia
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Dawūd al-Qayṣarī (c. 1260 - c. 1350) was an early Ottoman Sufi scholar, philosopher and mystic.
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Dawūd al-Qayṣarī (c. 1260 - c. 1350) was an early Ottoman Sufi scholar, philosopher and mystic.
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He was born in Kayseri, in central Anatolia
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