Recent scholarly works on the circulation of scholar-bureaucrats in the Ottoman imperial hierarchy have observed that a limited number of families dominated top-level judicial positions, such as the grand muftiate and chief judgeships in Rumelia and Anatolia during early modern Ottoman history. According to this view, dignitary judges and professors of the law (mevali) formed an elite circle, whose privileged members could confer their social status to their sons. These appointees were required to have graduated from select imperial colleges rather than an ijazah from a particular professor of law. In a gradual process, imperial colleges in Istanbul, Edirne, Bursa became monopolized nearly all judicial-educational appointments in the high-ranking bureaucratic positions. Rather than focusing on a small group of Istanbulite ulama families, who occupied the very summit of judicial-educational appointments, this paper offers a prosopographic exploration of a provincial ulama circle in Diyar-i Kurd (Kurdistan), from whom many reached the imperial judicial-educational hierarchy in the first half of the seventeenth century and marked an indelible imprint on the scholarly formation of following generations of Ottoman Ulama Hierarchy. Early seventeenth-century Ottoman Kurdistan, particularly Diyarbakir, was a hub of learning, gave room to those polymath scholars interested in not only in Islamic sciences but also in the natural sciences. These polymath scholars soon caught the attention of Ottoman sultans, governors, and grand muftis, who vigorously worked with them on the unprecedented fiscal, judicial, and educational challenges throughout the empire. In this paper, I will contextualize the rise of polymath-scholars from Ottoman Kurdistan amidst the backdrop of seventeenth-century crises, which became great opportunities for this group. This paper also aims to identify the sophisticated patronage system between provincial-background scholars and mevali-background scholars in the capital, questioning the extent to which this new circle of polymath scholars from Kurdistan challenged and shaped the politics of Ulama between the 1610s and 1660s. Finally, this study will offer a prosopographic analysis through digital mappings in order to understand better geographic, social, and bureaucratic mobility of provincial scholars from Ottoman Kurdistan to the imperial ulama hierarchy.