MOLLA HÜSREV — TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi

The TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Turkish encyclopedia of Islam) entry 'MOLLA HÜSREV' by Ferhat Koca (vol. 30, 2005); the fullest scholarly biography — his Varsak origin in the Amasya-Tokat-Sivas region and birth in the village of Karkın, its correction of the Ferâsiha misreading that made his father a Frank or a Rum in later sources, his colophon at the end of the Dürer and a sale deed of early 843/1439 naming him Mehmed b. Ferâmurz b. Hoca Ali, and his death in 885/1480 while mufti of Istanbul, buried in the hazire of his Bursa madrasa.