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Dawud al-Qaysari

داود القيصري

Dawud al-Qaysari — the Egypt-trained scholar to whom, in al-Sallabi's account, Sultan Orhan entrusted the first Ottoman madrasa founded in Nicomedia after its fall in 727 AH 1.

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Scholar · teacher
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia
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Dawud al-Qaysari, one of the Ottoman scholars trained in Egypt — in al-Sallabi's account the man to whom Sultan Orhan entrusted the first Ottoman madrasa, founded in Nicomedia after its fall in 727 AH 1.

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أورخان بن عثمان

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The Janissary corps (Yeniçeri)· Alaeddin Pasha· مراد الأول· Suleiman Pasha, son of Orhan· عثمان بن أرطغرل· أورخان بن عثمان

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 52
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islam.museum contributors. “Dawud al-Qaysari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/dawud-al-qaysari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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The Janissary corps (Yeniçeri)

The 'new army' (Yeniçeri) that al-Sallabi says Orhan founded on his brother Alaeddin's proposal — a standing corps raised from captives given Islamic training, organized in tens, hundreds and thousands with a fifth of spoils assigned to it and dedicated training centres. The author insists the familiar devşirme picture — Christian boys forcibly levied and converted — is 'a lie planted in Orhan's and Murad's history'; that is the author's apologetic position, not a consensus of historians.