Khati Chelebi: A Hero of the Moderate Movement

Khati Chelebi was a hero of the moderate stance within these debates. He rejects those who propose throwing out the intellectual baby with the bathwater of corruption among the Ulema. His balance of truth begins by insisting upon the value of such traditional scholarly disciplines as logic, mathematics and astronomy. Without training in these sciences, how is the Muslim juris to adjudicate in a land measurement dispute?