Sheikh Edebali

{{Short description|Sheikh (died 1326)}}

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| name = Sheikh Edebali

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| religion = Islam

| denomination = Sunni

| school = Bektashi{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

| school_tradition = Maturidi

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| birth_place = Karaman, Rum Sultanate (now Turkey)

| death_date = 1326

| death_place = Bilecik, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)

| father = İbrâhim bin İnac el-Kırşehrî

| period = 13th and 14th century

| known_for = Sufism

| influences = Mevlânâ Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi{{cite web |title=Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi |url=http://bilecik.edu.tr/en/Icerik/5314 |website=bilecik.edu.tr |access-date=30 January 2021}}

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| child = Mehmud pasha, Mehmet pasha, Rabia, Hafsa,

| relations = Ildiz Hatun (wife)
Rabia Bala Hatun (daughter)

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İmâdüddin Mustafa bin İbrâhim bin İnac al-Kırşehrî {{cite book |title=Ottoman History - Misperceptions and Truths by Ahmed Akgunduz & Said Ozturk |date=March 2011 |location=Istanbul |isbn=978-975-7268-28-4 |page=45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKfIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 |access-date=28 January 2021 |last1=Akgunduz |first1=Ahmed |last2=Ozturk |first2=Said }} (died in 1326), often known as Sheikh Edebali ({{langx|tr|Şeyh Edebali}}), was an Arab Muslim Sheikh of the Wafaiyya order (tariqa) and leader of the Ahi brotherhood,{{Cite web |title=Şeyh Edebali Kimdir? |url=https://www.islamveihsan.com/seyh-edebali-kimdir.html |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=İslam ve İhsan |language=tr}} who helped shape and develop the policies of the growing Ottoman State.The Ottoman Empire, by Halil Inalcik, p. 55.{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|last=Şahin|first=Kamil|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/edebali|title=EDEBÂLI|volume=10|pages=393-394}} He was assigned as the first Qadi of the Ottoman Empire. Edebali was a Sayyid and the father of Rabia Bala Hatun, who married Osman Gazi, the founder of the Ottoman Empire.{{Cite web |last=Er |first=İbrahim Halil |date=2018-08-16 |title=Halifeliğin Kureyşiliği ve Osmanlılar-2 |url=https://www.milligazete.com.tr/makale/1672883/ibrahim-halil-er/halifeligin-kureysiligi-ve-osmanlilar-2#:~:text=Osman%20Gazi'nin%20kay%C4%B1npederi%20%C5%9Eeyh,Osmanl%C4%B1%20hanedan%C4%B1n%C4%B1n%20H%C3%BCseyn%C3%AE%20oldu%C4%9Funu%20s%C3%B6yler. |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Milli Gazete |language=tr}}