Ibn Melek Firişteoğlu - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ibn Melek Firişteoğlu (Firişteoghlu, d. after 821/1418), a scholar of Ḥanafī jurisprudence and a glossarist, lived in the city of Tire (in the Aegean region of present-day Turkey) during the period of the Aydınoğulları beylik (708-92/1308-90; 803-29/1401-25). While he is well known as İbn Melek Firişteoğlu he uses different names in his books such as Abdülaziz b. Abdüllatif (ʿAbdülazīz b. ʿAbdüllaṭīf) b. Melek ( Mabāriq al-azhār ); Mehmed b. Abdüllatif b. Ferişte ( Sharḥ Manār ), and sources differ about the origin of his patronymic "