Shaykh al-Islam Baha'i Mehmed Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: شیخالاسلام بهايي محمد افندي) (1595-6[1]/1601,[2] Istanbul - 3 January 1654) was Ottoman jurist, theologian, poet and scholar. [1]
He was first appointed as Shaykh al-Islam in 1649.
Some of his fatwas are written in verse of which 4 of them are available now.[2]
His best known ruling was his lawful pronouncing of smoking and ending the prohibitions and repressions of the early 17th century.
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