Carullah Efendi

Veliyyuddin Carullah Efendi (1660-1738) was an Ottoman. Hanafi jurist and theologian. He wrote works on hadith, fiqh, creed, tafsir, logic, mysticism and astronomy.

Works
Carullah Efendi wrote a significant amount of work on a variety of topics. These include:


 * Tuḥfetü'l-erîb ; treatise on a theological debate in Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's work Mefâtîḥu'l-ġayb.
 * Ḥâşiye ʿalâ Câmiʿi'r-rumûz ; annotation of a work on Hanafi jurisprudence.
 * Ḥâşiye ʿalâ Şerḥi Ḥikmeti'l-ʿayn ; commentary on a work on logic.
 * Hâşiye alâ Şerhi'l-Hidaye fi'l-hikme; a work dealing with philosophy, in which Carulla Efendi defends the philosophers Ibn Sina and al-Farabi from accusations of heresy