TARIH KULTUR VE SANAT ARASTIRMALARI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF HISTORY CULTURE AND ART RESEARCH, cilt.7, ss.782-802, 2018 (ESCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
Al-Atufi, a scholar born in Merzifon witnessed the eras of Bayazid II, Selim I and Suleiman I and was employed as a tutor in the palace in the period of Bayazid II. He had long engaged in preaching through tafsir lessons in various mosques in Istanbul before he died there in 1541.