Khidr Bey
Khidr Beg خضر بك | |
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| Title | Khidr Beg Çelebi |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 810 A.H. = 1407 A.D. |
| Died | Some reports place his death in 860 A.H. = 1456 A.D., but 863 A.H. = 1459 A.D. is more likely Constantinople (nowadays Istanbul) |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Region | Ottoman Empire |
| Main interest(s) | Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Logic, Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Arabic prosody, Literature, Tafsir |
| Notable work(s) | Jawahir al-'Aqa'id, better known as: al-Qasida al-Nuniyya ("Ode Rhyming in the Letter Nun [N]") |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi |
| Muslim leader | |
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Khidr Bey or Khidr Beg (Turkish: Hızır Çelebi (Hızır Bey); Arabic: خضر بك) was an Ottoman Sunni Hanafi-Maturidi scholar and poet of the 9th/15th century, and the first kadi (qadi) of Istanbul. The unique source for his biography is the Arabic original of al-Shaqa'iq al-Nu'maniyya by Tash-Kopru-Zade.