List of Turkic scholars

Pre-Ottoman era

The following is a non-comprehensive list of Central Asian scientists and engineers who lived from antiquity up until the Ottoman era.

• Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (940–1002), lexicographer
• Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (1005–1102), historian and chess theorist
• Mahmud al-Kashgari (1005–1102), scholar and lexicographer
• Yusuf Khass Hajib (11th century), author of Kutadgu Bilig
• Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (1185–1256), Islamic scholar and historian
• Baybars al-Mansuri (d.1325)
• Al-Dhahabi (1274–1348), historian
• Ulug Beg (1394–1449), mathematician and astronomer
• Ibn Taghribirdi (1411–1470), historian
• Ali-Shir Nava'i, poet, writer, politician, linguist, and painter
• Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1603–1663), historian and genealogist
• Babur

Ottoman era

The following is a non-comprehensive list of Ottoman scientists and engineers of Turkic descent who lived in the Ottoman Empire.

• Abbas Wasim Efendi (1689–1760), astronomer
• Ali Qushji (1403–1474), mathematician, astronomer and physicist
• Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi (17th century), aviator
• İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (1703–1780), poet, author, astronomer, physicist, psychologist, sociologist
• Lagâri Hasan Çelebi (17th century), aviator
• Piri Reis (1465/70-1553), Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer
• Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385–1468), surgeon and physician
• Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī (1364–1436), astronomer and mathematician
• Akshamsaddin (1389, Damascus – 16 February 1459), physician, religious scholar, poet
• Münejjim Bashi (early 17th century – 27 February 1702), Ottoman courtier, scholar, Sufi poet and historian
• Mirim Çelebi (16th-century), astronomer, mathematician and physicist
• Kadrî of Pergamon (16th century), linguist
• Katip Çelebi (1609–1657), historian, geographer and bibliographer
• Seydi Ali Reis (1498–1563), Ottoman admiral and explorer
• Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi (1730-1790/1791), mathematician
• Evliya Çelebi, explorer
• Ali Çelebi, philosopher and moralist
• Mulla Shams ad-Din al-Fanari, Ottoman logician, theologian, Islamic legal scholar and lexicographer
• Aşıkpaşazade, historian
• Matrakçı Nasuh, polymath, mathematician, teacher, historian, geographer, cartographer, navigator, inventor, painter and miniaturist
• Ibrahim Muteferrika, diplomat, polymath, publisher, printer, courtier, economist, astronomer, historian, historiographer, Islamic scholar and theologian, sociologist
• Oruç Bey, historian
• Enveri, historian
• Ibn Kemal, historian
• Neşri, historian
• Şükrullah, historian
• Tursun Beg, historian
• Lütfi Pasha, historian
• Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, historian
• Mustafa Selaniki, historian
• İbrahim Peçevi, historian
• Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi, historian
• Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha, historian
• Osman Aga of Temesvar, historian
• Mustafa Naima, historian
• Ahmed Resmî Efendi, historian
• Ahi Çelebi
• Abdülaziz Efendi
• Imam Birgivi
• Dawūd al-Qayṣarī
• Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi

See also

• List of Arab scientists and scholars
• List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars
• Joint Administration of Turkic Arts and Culture

References