 Karabela's PhD thesis on "The development of dialectic 
and argumentation theory in 
post-classical Islamic 
intellectual history",
.Born in 1730 in the town of Gelenbe  near Manisa, at that time in the Province of Aydin in Western Anatolia, he is known under the name "Gelenbevi" (), which means "de Gelenbe" in French, and "von Gelenbe" in German.He studied in İstanbul where he rose through the Ottoman examination system to the rank of "Müderris" or professor, at the age of 33.