Born Istanbul, (Turkey), 1475
Died Edirne, (Turkey), 1525
Mīram Čelebī, one of the most important Ottoman mathematicians and astronomers, attempted to reconcile the mathematical (Ptolemaic) and natural philosophical (Aristotelian) traditions concerning astronomy, while writing astronomical texts that were widely used in the Ottoman Empire.
Mīram Čelebī's grandfather Muḥammad was Qāḍīzāde's son; he married ҁ Alī Qūshjī's eldest daughter in Samarqand. His father, the scholar Quṭb al‐Dīn Muḥammad, came with his grandfather ҁAlī Qūshjī to Istanbul, where Quṭb al‐Dīn married Mīram Čelebī's mother, who was the daughter of Khōja‐zāde, a famous scholar and philosopher of that time. His father, who had been a teacher at the Manāstır madrasa(school) in Bursa, died at a young age, and so Mīram Čelebī was raised by his grandfather Khōja‐zāde. Mīram was educated not only by his grandfather but also by other leading scholars of the time such as Sinān Pasha. Upon his graduation, he taught at...
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Fazlıoğlu, İ. (2007). Mīram Čelebī: Maḥmūd ibn Quṭb al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā Qāḍīzāde. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_961
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