Malatya

Malatya (medieval Malatya/Melitene), in eastern Anatolia (modern Turkey), was a frontier city between Byzantium and the Islamic world and later part of the Seljuk and Ottoman domains. The Sufi metaphysician Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi (d. 1274), the foremost interpreter of Ibn Arabi, was born in Malatya before settling in Konya.