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Akshamsaddin (Muhammad Shams al-Din bin Hamzah, ) (1389 in Damascus – 16 February 1459 in Göynük, Bolu), was an influential Ottoman Empire Sunni Muslim Ulama, poet, and Sufism wali.
In addition to his fame in religious sciences and Tasawwuf, Akshemsaddin was popular in the fields of medicine and pharmacology. There is not much reference to how he acquired this knowledge, but the Oriental studies Elias John Wilkinson Gibb notes in his work History of Ottoman Poetry that Akshamsaddin learned from Haji Bayram Wali during his years with him.Elias John Wilkinson Gibb: History of Ottoman Poetry. London, 1900-1909, v. 3, p. 138 Akshamsaddin was also knowledgeable in the treatment of psychological and spiritual disorders.Taşköprülüzâde: Şakayık-ı Nûmâniye, v. 1, p. 147.Nezihe Araz: Anadolu EvliyalarıNişancızâde Muhammed bin Ahmed: Mirat-ı Kâinat, p. 556Emir Hüseyin Enîsî: Menâkıb-ı Akşemseddin, p. 12İslam Ansiklopedisi, v. 1, p. 320 Akshamsaddin mentioned the microbe in his work Maddat ul-Hayat (The Material of Life) about two centuries prior to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's discovery through experimentation:
Different sources claim that Akshemsaddin had seven or twelve sons; the youngest was the noted poet Ḥamd Allāh Ḥamdī.Fahi̇r İz, 'Ḥamdī, Ḥamd Allāh', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. P. Bearman and others, 2nd edn, 12 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005); .
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