At a glance
- Roles
- judge · Scholar
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Summary
Yahya ibn Umar al-Ala'i al-Rumi, known as Munqari-zadah, a Turkish judge and exegete with some other learning, who wrote in Arabic and was styled Shaykh al-Islam. He studied the sciences in Anatolia with its senior scholars, among them Abd al-Rahim al-Mufti. He was appointed judge of Egypt in 1064 AH, then judge of Mecca, where he taught the commentary of al-Baydawi at the Sulaymaniyya madrasa. Later he held the judgeship of Constantinople and of the army, and in 1073 AH he was moved to the post of mufti. His works include a gloss on al-Baydawi's Anwar al-tanzil and treatises on listening and on the clear epistle. The book gives his death as 1088 AH. 1
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Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.6812
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islam.museum contributors. “Yahya ibn Umar Munqari-zadah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yahya-ibn-umar-munqari-zadah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.