شمس الدين الفناري

شمس الدين الفناري

c. 1431 CE · c. 834 AH

Shams al-Din al-Fanari the Ottoman polymath, author of the hundred-science riddle he wrote — per his son — to test the scholars of Qaraman who denied his merit; he died in 834 1.

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · al-Abshihi, Abu al-Fath · Al-Ibshitay, Ahmad ibn Isma'il · Al-Barzali, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad · Al-Biqa'i, Ibrahim ibn Umar

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موجز

شمس الدين محمد بن حمزة الفناري، عالم عثماني، صاحب «أنموذج العلوم». 2

ما يذكره حاجي خليفة

ألّف مئة مسألة من مئة فنّ، ألغز فيها أسماء الفنون امتحاناً لفضلاء عصره. 2

كان ممن سافر إلى قَرامان، فكتبها اختباراً لعلمائها الذين كانوا يجحدون فضله. 2

توفي سنة 834هـ. 2

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.), p. 665
  2. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.), p.665
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islam.museum contributors. “شمس الدين الفناري”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-fanari-shams-al-din/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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