Taşköprü family

[1][2] Among the best known members of the family is Taşköprülüzade İsameddin Ahmed bin Mustafa, better known as Taşköprüzade, famous for his great biographic encyclopedia.

Taşköprüzade's father, Muslih al-Din Mustafa, was a noted scholar, the teacher of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I. Muslih al-Din Mustafa was the director of a medrese in Taşköprü, from which fact his son's name was derived.

[4] The first famous member of the family is Hayreddin Halil Efendi b. Kāsım b. Hacı Safâ'dır (died in 1474–75).

[4] Kıvâmüddin, born in 1462–63, received a good education and worked with the likes of Molla Lutfî and his well-known nephew.

He copied several works for Sultan Bayezid, and left a treatise He died in 1513, while a professor at İnegöl İshak Pasha Madrasa.

Ibrahim's son Ahmed Efendi was a ilmye who became a professor in Süleymaniye Darülhadisi.

He was the teacher of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I. Muslih al-Din Mustafa was a judge in Aleppo and the director of a medrese in Taşköprü, from which fact his son's name was derived.

[3] Muslih also wrote poetry, under the pen name of "Hilmi" and left, among other things, a treatise on the science of ferâiz.

[4] Muslih al-Din Mustafa had two sons, İsâmüddin Ahmed (the famous Taşköprizade) and Nizameddin Mehmed.

[2] Taşköprüzade's son Kemaleddin Mehmed translated and expanded with additions his father's work and printed the first Ottoman Encyclopedia, Mevzuatii l-ulum.