Bedreddin Simavnalı - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Karataş, Hasan
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Leiden
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Brill
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Bedreddin b. Kadı Simavnalı (Badr al-Dīn b. Qāḍī Samāvnālı, 760-819/1359-1416) was an Ottoman scholar, judge, Ṣūfī, and rebel. He was born in Simavna (Samāvnā), near Edirne (present-day Kyprinos in northeastern Greece), as the eldest son of the judge İsrail (Isrāʾīl), an early Ottoman frontier warrior. His mother was a Greek convert named Melek Hatun (Khātun). Because the only source for his family and early life is the hagiography composed by his grandson Halil b. İsmail (Khalīl b. Ismāʿīl), scholars debate his hagiographer's claims about