The institution of witness testimony played a critical role in the Ottoman judicial system. Judges (kadıs) made their final decisions almost solely on the basis of witness testimony. For this reason, great importance was ...

Burhān al-Dīn Haydar al-Harawī is one of the scholars invited from the East to the Ottoman lands during the foundation period of the Ottoman State. al-Harawī, who was reported to come to Bursa with the invitation of Sultan ...