• Memikzade Mehmed Efendi (b. ? - d. 1066 AH/1656 CE), was an Ottoman Islamic scholar, educator, qadi (judge), kazasker, and Shaykh al-Islam for the shortest...
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  • Çerkes Halil Efendi (Halil Efendi the Circassian) or Hacı Halil Efendi (Halil Efendi the Hajji) was an 18th- and 19th-century Ottoman government official...
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  • The longest-serving officeholder was Ebussuud Efendi for 29 years, the shortest was Memikzade Mustafa Efendi for 13 hours. 1. Molla Şemseddin Fenari (1424–1430)...
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    Al-Suyuti (b. 849 AH) Ibn Kemal (b. 873 AH) Shihab al-Din al-Ramli Ebussuud Efendi (b. 896 AH) Ibn Hajar al-Haytami (b. 909 AH) Shams al-Din al-Ramli (b. 919...
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  • Hacı Mustafa Ağa, a Janissary leader. His grandfather Hacı Hüseyin Ağa probably also held a similar position. During the time Ebezâde Abdullah Efendi was...
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  • Yekçeşm Hüseyin Efendi (d. 1704) was an Ottoman scholar who was briefly Shaykh al-Islām. Hüseyin's father was a man named Ahmed from the Hamid Sanjak....
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  • Seyyid Medeni Mehmed Nuri Efendi (24 November 1859 – 29 July 1927) was an Islamic scholar, qadi (judge), and the last Sheikh-ul-Islam of the Ottoman Empire...
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    Publishing. ISBN 9781472569462. "MUSTAFA SABRİ EFENDİ". TDV İslâm Araştırmaları Merkezi. "The Critiques of Mustafa Sabri Efendi to the Fatwa of Mahmûd Şeltût...
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    Abdurrahman Efendi Memikzade Mustafa Efendi Hocazade Mesud Efendi Hanefi Mehmet Efendi Balizade Mustafa Efendi Bolevi Mustafa Efendi Esiri Mehmet Efendi Sunizade...
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  • Sunizade Seyit Mehmet Emin Efendi was a seventeenth-century Ottoman scholar and calligrapher and briefly Shaykh al-Islam. Mehmet Emin was born in 1614...
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  • Hüsamzade Abdurrahman Efendi, also known as Kocahüsamzade Abdurrahman Efendi or Tulumcuzade Abdurrahman Efendi, was an Ottoman scholar and calligrapher...
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    Şeyhülislâm Halidefendizâde Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi (1848–1917) (Ottoman Turkish: محمد جمال الدین افندی) was an Ottoman judge who served as sheikh al-Islam...
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  • Birgivizade Mustafa Efendi ahead of the ulema there at the circumcision wedding of his sons Murad and Alaeddin in 896 (1491), Cemali Efendi left his job...
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  • Molla Muhyiddin Mehmed Manisalıoğlu. Hüsrev's great-grandson Husrevzâde Mustafa Efendi (pen name Husrev or Husrevî) was a divan poet, müderris, and qadi. Koca...
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  • Abdurrahman Efendi Memikzade Mustafa Efendi Hocazade Mesud Efendi Hanefi Mehmet Efendi Balizade Mustafa Efendi Bolevi Mustafa Efendi Esiri Mehmet Efendi Sunizade...
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