This presentation is based on Ekiz's tentative dissertation project, which looks into the Islamicate humanities through one of the most distinguished members of early 16th century Ottoman scholarly class, the chief jurisconsult and scholar-littérateur Sh̲ams al-dīn Aḥmad b. Sulaymān b. Kamāl Pas̲h̲a, known as Kemalpaşazade or Ibn Kamal. Having vastly produced in various branches of knowledge, he is known for his encyclopedic, multilingual, cosmopolitan erudition. Taking up an integrative approach which attempts at dealing with his scholarship without compartmentalizing it according to disparate sciences, I aim at understanding the methods that bring seemingly contradictory epistemologies together, namely Akbarian monism, Avicennan philosophy and the late Ashari speculative theology. Could we talk about a synthesizing, universalist project that Kemalpaşazade deliberately employs to create an Ottoman orthodoxy? I argue that orthodoxy, Sunnitization or confessionalization do not do full justice to the agenda pursued by cosmopolitan Ottoman scholars by overlooking humanistic aspect of Ottoman “scholasticism”. Therefore, my presentation is going to focus on how the study of humanities, of literary and linguistic sciences came to be the primary pursuit of a certain class of Ottoman scholars. My project also tries to contribute to the long- neglected field of Islamicate paideia and understudied post-classical Islamic thought.