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  "ar": "علي القوشجي",
  "en": "Ali Qushji"
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  "ar": "العلامة علي القوشجي، من أكبر علماء عصره في الرياضيات والفلك؛ ينقل الصلابي أنه كان كلما ألف كتاباً بالفارسية نقله إلى العربية وأهداه إلى السلطان محمد الفاتح {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 142}، ويعده ابن العماد فيمن استجلبه الفاتح من أقصى الديار فصارت أصطنبول بهم أم الدنيا {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 344-345}.",
  "en": "The scholar Ali Qushji, among the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of his age; al-Salabi records that whenever he composed a book in Persian he would render it into Arabic and present it to Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 142}, and Ibn al-Imad counts him among the great scholars Mehmed drew from the farthest lands until Istanbul became mother of the world {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 344-345}."
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    "value": "علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي"
   }
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   "source/shadharat-dhahab"
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   "source": "الدولة العثمانية لعلي محمد الصلابي (ط1 1421)",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "العلامة علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي، من أكبر علماء عصره في الرياضيات والفلك {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 344-345}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عند الفاتح",
     "markdown": "ينقل الصلابي أنه كان كلما ألف كتاباً بالفارسية نقله إلى العربية وأهداه إلى السلطان [[person/mehmed-ii|محمد الفاتح]] {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 142}. ويعده ابن العماد فيمن استجلبه الفاتح من أقصى الديار حتى صارت أصطنبول بهم أم الدنيا {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 344-345}."
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    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "The scholar Ala al-Din Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qushji, among the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of his age {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 344-345}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "At Mehmed's court",
     "markdown": "Al-Salabi records that whenever Qushji composed a book in Persian he rendered it into Arabic and presented it to Sultan [[person/mehmed-ii|Mehmed the Conqueror]] {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 142}; Ibn al-Imad counts him among the great scholars Mehmed drew from the farthest lands until Istanbul became mother of the world {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 344-345}."
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    "source_lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-22"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "علامہ علاء الدین علی بن محمد قوشچی، اپنے عصر کے بڑے ریاضی دان اور ماہرِ فلکیات میں سے ایک {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 344-345}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "فاتح کے دربار میں",
     "markdown": "صلابی نقل کرتا ہے کہ جب بھی وہ فارسی میں کوئی کتاب تصنیف کرتا، اسے عربی میں منتقل کر کے سلطان [[person/mehmed-ii|محمد فاتح]] کو پیش کرتا {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 142}۔ ابن عماد اسے ان بڑے علماء میں شمار کرتا ہے جنہیں فاتح نے دور دراز کے ممالک سے بلایا یہاں تک کہ استنبول ان سے امّ الدنیا بن گئی {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 344-345}۔"
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