Hasan Kafi Pruščak (November/December 1544 – 9 October 1615) was a Bosnian

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...

scholar, philosopher, historian, writer, poet,

Maturidi Māturīdī theology or Māturīdism ( ar, الماتريدية: ''al-Māturīdiyyah'') is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Persian Muslim scholar, Ḥanafī jurist, reformer (''Mujaddid''), and scholastic ...

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

and "

qadi A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...

" (judge) who studied in Bosnia and

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. He is considered to be the most significant figure of the area's scientific, cultural and intellectual life in the 16th and early 17th centuries, as well as one of the most important Bosniak thinkers.

Birth

He was born in 1544 in Prusac, studied in

, and from 1583 he was a judge of Prusac.

Works

Basis of Wisdom on the Organization of the World is the most significant of his seventeen works. In this work, Pruščak deals with the key issues of the

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at the time and the study was meant to: "help the rulers, guide the viziers, be a role-model for the wise and support for the poor."

Background

Pruščak hailed from the village Prusac near the Bosnian town of

Donji Vakuf Donji Vakuf ( sr-cyrl, Доњи Вакуф, ) is a town and municipality located in Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded by Malkoçoğlu İbrahim Bey in 1572 and wa ...

. He attended elementary school in Prusac before relocating to

where he studied for nine years. He returned to his hometown in 1575. He went on the Hajj to Mecca in 1591.

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Hanafis Maturidis 16th-century Muslim theologians People from Donji Vakuf Bosnian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire Bosnia and Herzegovina poets Bosniak writers Sociologists from the Ottoman Empire People from the Ottoman Empire of Bosnian descent 16th-century Bosnian people 17th-century Bosnian people 1544 births 1615 deaths 17th-century Muslim theologians {{BosniaHerzegovina-bio-stub

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