Kınalızâde Ali Çelebi (1510/11?–1572), known with the

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Ala al-Din Ali Kınalızâde or simply Kınalızade Ali, was an Ottoman high rank jurist and writer.

Life

Ali Çelebi was born in

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in the

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of 916, corresponding to 1510 or 1511, member of a notable family. He was the son of ''

Kadı A kadi (, ) was an official in the Ottoman Empire. In Arabic, the term () typically refers to judges who preside over matters in accordance with sharia Islamic law; under Ottoman rule, however, the kadi also became a crucial part of the imperi ...

'' (judge) Emrullah Mehmed (d.1559) and the grandson of Abd' al-Kadir Hamidi. As his father, he became a judge and served in several locations within the Empire:

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, and

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. In October of November 1570 he settled in

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. Ali was appointed Kadi'asker for Anatolia in early summer 1571. He died on January 22 or 23, 1572, during the Holy Ramadan month. Ali left two sons, both noted poets of the time. Mehmet Fehmı Efendi (d. May 1596), known as

Fehmî Fehmî (1564–1596), also referred as Kınalızâde Mehmet Fehmi, Kınalızâde Fehmi Çelebi or Molla Mohammed (Mehmet) Fehmi was an Ottoman diwan poet. A scion of the prominent Kınalızâde family from Isparta in Anatolia, Fehmî was bor ...

, and Hasan, known as

Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (c. 1546 – 1604) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. His main work is the ''Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara'' (Memoirs of the Poets), one of the best known Ottoman ''tezkires'' (bibliograph ...

. Though both left their name in the Ottoman literature, according to the historian

Mustafa Âlî Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî bin Ahmed bin Abdülmevlâ Çelebi (lit. ''"Mustafa Ali of Gallipoli son of Ahmed son of Abdülmevla the Godly"''; 28 April 1541 – 1600) was an Ottoman historian, bureaucrat and major literary figure. Life and work M ...

who knew the family members, none of them rose at the level of their father. Beside being a judge, Ali was a very industrious writer, producing a number of glossaries and commentaries on Islamic theological works. His notable work was ''Akhlak-ı Ala'i'' written in 1564 and dedicated to the

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, Ali Pasha. It is a high end study on

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. The original

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is conserved in the "Rhagib Pasha Library" in

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. It was printed in February 1833 in

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, published in 1974, and was first translated by the Venetian Giovanni Medun. Another valuable work is his collection of letters, divided in five sections. It contains stylistic masterpieces of different kinds of literary compositions.

References

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