Molla Fenari, full name Mulla Shams ad-Din Muhammad ibn Hamzah al-Fanari, known in Turkish as Molla Semseddin Mehmed Fenari, lived from 1350 to 1431 and was an Ottoman logician, Islamic theologian, Islamic legal scholar and mystical philosopher of the school of Ibn Arabi.
Facts
Tradition
Tradition (category) Classification
NationalityOttoman Empire (Historical) 1 Office HeldQadi of the military (from 1424), an office that became the Sheikh ul-Islam 1 Connections
In Tradition
Entity-backed identity for the tradition-category enum value this philosopher already carries, resolved to a philosophy school by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The tradition fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the philosopher unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Shams al-Din al-Fanari, Wikipedia
Administrative careerQuote, Administrative career
In 1424 Murad appointed him as the qādī of the military, a position which would evolve over the next century into the Sheikh ul-Islam.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.