Seyyid Medeni Mehmed Nuri Efendi (24 November 1859 – 29 July 1927)[1] was an Islamic scholar, qadi (judge), and the last Sheikh-ul-Islam of the Ottoman Empire.
[2][3][4] Medeni Mehmed Nuri was born on November 24, 1859, in the Sultantepe neighborhood of Üsküdar district, Istanbul.
His father was el-hajji es-Seyyid Tarsusizade Osman Kamil Efendi of Istanbul and lived in the city between 1821 and 1896.
[2] At the age of 22, he started to work with a ru'us salary and gradually rose in various institutions of the Ottoman legal system becoming the qadi (judge) of Egypt in 1912.
He was not counted as one of the 150 personae non gratae of Turkey, but his pension was not paid because he had been in the cabinet of Damat Ferit Pasha.