المولى محيي الدين محمد

المولى محيي الدين محمد

Molla Muhyi al-Din Muhammad, a scholar of Mehmed II's reign; when the viziers' intercession failed for the page who had struck Edirne's qadi, they begged him to make the sultan's peace. He argued: 'the deputy, by rising from the bench in anger, fell from the rank of judge — so at the moment of the blow he was no qadi, and the law's dishonour does not warrant killing.' The sultan fell silent ¹.