علي القوشجي

علي القوشجي

The scholar Ali Qushji, among the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of his age; al-Salabi records that whenever he composed a book in Persian he would render it into Arabic and present it to Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror ¹, and Ibn al-Imad counts him among the great scholars Mehmed drew from the farthest lands until Istanbul became mother of the world ².