Khidr Bey

Khidr Bey, also known as Khidr Beg or Hizir Celebi, was an Ottoman scholar and poet who lived from 1407 to about 1459 and became the first kadi, or judge, of Istanbul following its conquest in 1453, a post he held until his death. A Sunni Muslim scholar of the Hanafi school and Maturidi creed, he worked in Islamic theology, logic, jurisprudence and literature, and his reputation rests chiefly on three Arabic poems, most notably Jawahir al-Aqaid, also known as al-Qasida al-Nuniyya, a didactic poem on Islamic creed that later generated numerous scholarly commentaries. He is also credited with introducing versified chronograms into Ottoman literature, though few of his Turkish poems survive, and his biography is preserved chiefly through Taskoprizade's biographical dictionary al-Shaqaiq al-Numaniyya.