Turkish Philosophers: Classical Period

By Levent Ağaoğlu

01/08/2021

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Epics are one of the most important cornerstones of Turkish thought, identity and creativity.
In the inscriptions, it is called “Bengü Stones” with the hope that these monuments will remain until eternity.
Ibn Turk al-Ceyli: The oldest of the Turkish mathematicians
Meruzi: First trigonometric ratios, sine, cosine, conant, cotangent
Musa Al-Khwarizmi: “The Sultan of the House of Wisdom”
Imam Bukhari “Master of Hadith”
Thabit Bin Kurra: The first anesthesia practitioner.
Tirmidhi: “Tirmidhi’s book is a garden of knowledge”
Maturidi: Reason and faith
Farabi: “Philosophy Lessons in Transoxiana”
Ebu’l-Mahmud el-Hocendî: He is a mathematician who discovered Fermat’s Theorem 700 years before Fermat.
Ebü’l-Vefa el Buzcanî : He significantly improved Harezmi’s discoveries in mathematics and geometry. In particular, he focused on the relations between geometry and algebra.
Al Biruni: “A Universal Genius”
Ibn Sina: “The King of Medicine”
Demir Baba: An Alperen who fused the heart and the wrist
Kaşgarlı Mahmut: “The Uncrowned Ruler of Turkish Language”
Yusuf Has Hacib “The essence of man is gone, his name remains”
Nizamül Mulk: The founder of the country’s regulations
Ahmet Yesevi: “A Star in the Sky of Central Asia”
Edip Ahmet Yukneki: Atabet Ul Hakayik
Şahabettin Sühreverdi: Sheikh of Sheikhs
Sheikh Yusuf Hamadani: “Teacher of Hodjas”
Nasruddin Et Tusi: The Great Islamic Scholar Who Created a Work in the Field of Trigonometry for the First Time
Sheikh Edebali: The father of ideas of the Ottoman Empire.
Nasreddin Hodja: Hodja riding the donkey backwards
Hacı Bektaş Veli: “Horasan Saints”
Sadreddin Konevi: The transformation of classical mysticism into a strong intellectual movement
Sari Saltuk: The Epic Precursor of Popular Islam in the Balkans
“Naqshband” because it engraves the love of Allahu ta’ala into hearts.
Nasafi: A great mujtahid in the Hanafi school
Sheikh Kusteri: The old masters of Karagöz call him “Our Pir Sheikh Kusteri”
Aydınlı Pasha (Celaleddin Hızır): The First Turkish Doctor
Haji Bayram Veli: “We are celebrating two festivals at once!”
Sheikh Bedreddin: Ottoman mystic, philosopher and kazasker who belonged to the Vahdet-i Body school of Islamic mysticism
Abdulkadir El Meragi: “The Great Teacher”
Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin: He is the owner of the first Turkish surgical work.
Akşemsettin: First Friday Prayer of Conquest
Uluğ Bey: “The Scholar Sitting on the Throne”
Sayyid Yahya Shirvani: He is the second founder of the Halvetiyye sect.
Ali Kuşçu: “Great Scholar, Honorable Son”
Fethullah Eş Şirvani: One of the two scholars who started teaching mathematics, astronomy and geography in Anatolia.
Mimar Sinan: One of the world’s greatest construction artists
Molla Hüsrev: Fakih, founder of Enderun, Muhaddis statesman. Mehmed the Conqueror expressed his love for Molla Hüsrev by saying that he is the Ebu Hanife of our time.
Gül Baba: A heartfelt dervish-gazi, whose every word is full of wisdom
Mustafa Ali from Gallipoli: 1580 – The destruction of the Istanbul Observatory by shelling by the navy (January 22)
Kadızade Mehmet: They led to the regressiveness of the education system in the Ottoman Empire and the conservativeness of the scientific life.
Hezarfen Hüseyin Efendi: The first Ottoman Historian to use Greek and Latin sources
Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi: The first person to fly with false wings he developed
Hodja Sadettin Efendi: Şeyhülislam, historian, kazasker, kadi, professor
Ali Şir Nevai: “The Poet Who Named a Language”
Katip Çelebi: the first Occidentalist
Naima: The first Ottoman chronicler
İbrahim Müteferrika: Reason and science, 1728 acceptance of the printing press
Gelenbevi İsmail Efendi: He is the last Ottoman mathematician to solve problems with the old method.
Asım Efendi: He is one of the powerful scientists of Turkish culture. Although he has the characteristics of historiography, lexicography, poetry, publishing, economics and theology, he is best known for his lexicography.
Hoca İshak Efendi: His most important work is called Mecmua-i Ulum-Riyaziyye (Selection of Mathematical Sciences).
Ahmet Cevdet Pasha: The last sun of the Eastern madrasahs. Since Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, no one in this country should seek a Hamidullah, a Fazlurrahman or a Iqbal. (Ilber Ortayli)