Draft:Molla Lutfi

Not to be confused with Lutfi (court official)
In part to be translated from Turkish Wikipedia tr:Molla Lutfî
Things to be confirmed tr:Molla Lutfî is different from Lutfi (court official) , date and year of execution, executed at Hippodrome of Constantinople or Covered Hippodrome ?

Molla Lutfî (b. Tokat - d. January 23, 1495, Istanbul) was a 15th century Ottoman Turkish mathematician. He was a student of Sinan Pasha and Ali Kuşçu and a teacher of Ibn Kemal.^[1] He was executed for being an alleged heretic.

Career

Sinan Pasha was Molla Lutfî's patron and on his recommendation Lutfî was appointed as librarian by Mehmed II from 1470 to 1476. From 1470 to 1472 Lutfi took lessons from Ali Kuşçu in mathematics on behalf of Sinan Pasha. From 1476 to 1481 Lutfi shifted out of Istanbul to accompany Sinan Pasha as Pasha fail out of favour from Mehmed II and was sent out of Istanbul. After Bayezid II came to power Molla Lutfî' returned back to Istanbul.

While Sinan Pasha was fortunate to freely debate and and reject views of another contemporary scholar Muslihuddin Kesteli, where as Molla Lutfî' was not fortunate enough and his provocative lectures costed him with his life.^[2]

Treatise

Molla Lutfî wrote treatise in Arabic language titled al - Maṭālib al - ilāhiyya fi mawḍūāt al - ' ulūm al - lughawiyya ( The Divine Questions in the subjects of philological sciences)^[3]^[4]

Anecdotes, accusations and controversies

According to İsmail E. Erünsal, Sinan Pasha had willed certain books from his personal collection to the library, Ahmed Pasha wrote two letters to Sultan accusing Molla Lutfî not handing over those books to the library and instead selling some of those.^[5]

Death

Time line

1470 to 1476 Librarian to Mehmed II
1476 to 1481 With Sinan Pasha away from Istanbul
1481 returns to Istanbul
1494 (possibly December 24) executed upon heresy charges

Bibliography

Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2001. Editor: Derek Jones
Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 Vols): Volume I: Essays / Volume II: Transliteration and Facsimile "Register of Books" (Kitāb Al-kutub), MS Török F. 59; Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény (Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Netherlands, Brill, 2019.
Bouhdiba, Abdelwahab. The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture. France, UNESCO Publishing, 1998. p 576.
Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Netherlands, Springer Netherlands, 2005. p 282
Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity: In Memory of Metin Kunt. Netherlands, Brill, 2021. p 103.
Erünsal, İsmail E.. A History of Ottoman Libraries. United Kingdom, Academic Studies Press, 2022. Ref 11 from Ref; 10 onward.
Akgündüz, Ahmed, and Öztürk, Said. Ottoman History: Misperceptions and Truths. Netherlands, IUR Press, 2011. p 163, 164.
Turkish Studies Association Bulletin. United States, Turkish Studies Association, 2000. p 122
Pfeifer, Helen. Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands. United States, Princeton University Press, 2024. p 143.
Inalcik, Halil. The Ottoman Empire: 1300-1600. United Kingdom, Orion, 2013. p 93

References

^ Schmidtke, Sabine (2016-03-31). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford University Press. p. 574. ISBN 978-0-19-106879-9.
^ Schmidtke, Sabine (2016-03-31). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford University Press. p. 572. ISBN 978-0-19-106879-9.
^ Necipoğlu, Gülru; Kafadar, Cemal; Fleischer, Cornell H. (2019). Treasures of knowledge : an inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4). Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture. Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Leiden Boston: Brill. p. 26. ISBN 978-90-04-40248-5.
^ Bouhdiba, Abdelwahab (1998). al-Hassan, Ahmad Y. (ed.). The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture. Vol. 4, Part 2. Paris: UNESCO Publishing. p. 576. ISBN 9231038311.
^ Erünsal, İsmail (26 July 2022). A history of Ottoman libraries. Ottoman and Turkish studies. Boston: Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-64469-862-4.

Categories to be added

Category:1494/ 1495 deaths, Category:People executed for heresy

Category:Mathematicians from the Ottoman Empire Category:Date of birth unknown Category:15th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire Category:Arabic-language writers from the Ottoman Empire Category:15th-century Muslim theologians Category:Islamic scholars from the Ottoman Empire

[1] Schmidtke, Sabine (2016-03-31). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford University Press. p. 574. ISBN 978-0-19-106879-9.

[2] Schmidtke, Sabine (2016-03-31). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford University Press. p. 572. ISBN 978-0-19-106879-9.

[3] Necipoğlu, Gülru; Kafadar, Cemal; Fleischer, Cornell H. (2019). Treasures of knowledge : an inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4). Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture. Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Leiden Boston: Brill. p. 26. ISBN 978-90-04-40248-5.

[4] Bouhdiba, Abdelwahab (1998). al-Hassan, Ahmad Y. (ed.). The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture. Vol. 4, Part 2. Paris: UNESCO Publishing. p. 576. ISBN 9231038311.

[5] Erünsal, İsmail (26 July 2022). A history of Ottoman libraries. Ottoman and Turkish studies. Boston: Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-64469-862-4.

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