Khidr Bey

Khidr Beg
خضر بك
Khidr Beg; خضر بك
Title	Khidr Beg Çelebi
Personal
Born	810 A.H. = 1407 A.D.; Sivrihisar, Turkey
Died	Some reports place his death in 860 A.H. = 1456 A.D., but 863 A.H. = 1459 A.D. is more likely; Constantinople (nowadays Istanbul)
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Region	Ottoman Empire
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Maturidi
Main interest(s)	Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Logic, Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Arabic prosody, Literature, Tafsir
Notable work(s)	Jawahir al-'Aqa'id, better known as: al-Qasida al-Nuniyya ("Ode Rhyming in the Letter Nun [N]")
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Abu Hanifa; Abu Mansur al-Maturidi; Shams al-Din al-Fanari; Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani;
	Influenced Al-Khayali;

Khidr Bey or Khidr Beg (Turkish: Hızır Çelebi (Hızır Bey); Arabic: خضر بك) was an Ottoman Hanafi-Maturidi scholar and poet of the 9th/15th century, and the first kadi (qadi) of Istanbul. The unique source for his biography is the Arabic original of al-Shaqa'iq al-Nu'maniyya by Tash-Kopru-Zade.

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