Fāḍil, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad, 1650-1722

الفاضل، سليمان بن أحمد, 1650-1722

[Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad al-Fāḍil (1650-1722) was a Turkish teacher, preacher, poet, and scholar of Hadith and Sufism who wrote texts primarily in Arabic, but also in Ottoman Turkish. He traveled heavily throughout the region learning from other scholars in Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Edirne. He taught in mosques and madrasas in İznik and Istanbul, where he died in 1722 while working as a preacher and teacher at Hagia Sophia.]

found: 23964 (online via HMML), viewed on April 30, 2021(فاضل سليمان افندى=Fâdıl Süleyman Efendi; author of مفتاح الفلاح = Miftâhuʼl-felâh; abridgement of Birgivî's treatise al-Ṭarīqah al-Muḥammadīyah; manuscript text in Ottoman Turkish, translated from Arabic) - https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/528491

found: Kaḥḥālah, Muʻjam al-muʼallifīn, 1993:I:784, 795 (سليمان بن أحمد الفاضل=Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad al-Fāḍil; سليمان بن فاضل بن أحمد بن مصطفى الرومي=Sulaymān ibn Fāḍil ibn Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Rūmī)

found: Türk Edebiyati İsimler Sözüǧlü (online via Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi), viewed on April 30, 2021:SÜLEYMÂN, Şeyh Süleyman Fâdıl (born March 1650; died Feb. 11, 1722; divan poet and writer; born in Istanbul; educated by his father, then traveled and learned from many prominent scholars in Damascus, Cairo, and Jerusalem; returned to Istanbul in 1674-75, then learned calculus and science in Edirne; taught in madrasa, then preached and taught hadith and tafsir lessons in mosques; his scholarly disputes got him briefly suspended from the Sultan Orhan Madrasah in Iznik, where he taught in 1710-11; died on 11 February 1722 while a preacher and teacher at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul) - http://teis.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/suleyman-seyh-suleyman-fadil

[Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad al-Fāḍil (1650-1722) was a Turkish teacher, preacher, poet, and scholar of Hadith and Sufism who wrote texts primarily in Arabic, but also in Ottoman Turkish. He traveled heavily throughout the region learning from other scholars in Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Edirne. He taught in mosques and madrasas in İznik and Istanbul, where he died in 1722 while working as a preacher and teacher at Hagia Sophia.]

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