Ahmed Bican, Yazıcıoğlu - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Aynur, Hatice
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Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican (Yazıcıoghlu Aḥmed Bīcān, d. after 870/1466), or Ahmet-i Bican (Aḥmed-i Bīcān), was a prominent Ottoman religious figure, scholar, prose writer, and translator of the ninth/fifteenth century. He was also called Yazıcıoğlu, Yazıcızade (Yazıcızāde), and İbnü'l-Katip (Ibn al-Kātib) but is best known by his nickname Bican ("the lifeless"), which he received because he was extremely thin, either from extensive fasting to comply with the traditional practices of the Bayramiye (Bayrāmiyye) Ṣūfī order or from not eating to demonstrate his love and