'Ata' Allah, Sultan Selim II's teacher

عطاء الله أستاذ السلطان سليم الثاني

c. June 1571 CE · Safar 979 AH

Molla 'Ata' Allah al-Konari — madrasa teacher at Iznik then Edirne, up the dar ladder to the eighty, then qadi 'askar, and teacher of Sultan Selim b. Sulayman while he reigned; died at the start of Safar 979 1.

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Jurist · teacher
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Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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Mawla 'Ata' Allah; teacher at Iznik, then Edirne, then through the ders from the forty to the sixty to the eighty, then qadi'asker, and he became tutor to Sultan Selim b. Suleyman who now sits upon the throne; he died at the start of Safar. 1

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سليم الثاني

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Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 388
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