Newsletter 24/03/2018 | Holidays | FECycle Ride | Camping Trip | Arabic Classes | Ṭashköprüzāde | Darwinian Evolution Workshop

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OUR RESOURCES FOR THE 'CRITIQUE OF THE MAJOR THEMES OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTION'

New Saturday Class Name:
Ṭashköprüzāde
​(Taash-Kopru-Zaa-deh)
Parents and students please learn the name over the holidays

​Taşköprüzade Ahmet (born 1494, died 1561) was an Ottoman historian and chronicler. He was educated in Ankara, Bursa, and Istanbul, after which he began teaching at a medrese in Dimetoka in 1525. In 1527 he was promoted to teaching in Istanbul. He was appointed as the qadi of Istanbul in 1551 and retired from the position in 1554, after which he took to dictating his works.[1]

Works
Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya fī ʿUlemāʾal-Dawla al-ʿUthmāniyya - a biographical dictionary of Ottoman-era scholars, beginning with the founding of the state and culminating with the scholars of the era of Suleyman I.
Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda
Nawādir al-Akhbār fī Manāqib al-Akhyār