Veliyyüddin Carullah Efendi

Veliyyüddin Cârullah Efendi (1660?-1738) was an Ottoman Hanafi and theologian. In Mecca, he became a follower of Ahmed Yekdest Cüryânî of the Müceddidiyye branch of the Nakşibendiyye order. He also traveled to Medina, Aleppo, Damascus, and Baghdad, received licenses (icazet) from the Halveti, Bektaşî, and Mevlevi orders, and in addition was associated with the Kadiri and Ömeri orders. a work dealing with philosophy, in which Cârullah Efendi defends the philosophers Ibn Sina and al-Farabi from accusations of heresy

Library In 1722, Cârullah donated 800 books to the madrasa of Feyzullah Efendi. These were transferred in 1734 to a library Cârullah had built near the Ayak Madrasas in the Fatih Mosque complex. The total number of books he eventually donated was 2200. (These were later transferred to the Beyazıt Mosque, then to a national library, and finally, in 1963, to the Cârullah Efendi Section of the Süleymaniye Library.)