One of the significant names of Turkish-Islamic art, Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır, who translated the Quran into Turkish, is being commemorated with prayers on his death anniversary.
The thinker and religious scholar Elmalılı Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, who translated the first Turkish Qur'an commentary after the Republic, is commemorated with mercy on the 81st anniversary of his death.
Muhammed Hamdi Yazır was born in the Elmalı district of Antalya in 1878. After completing his primary and secondary education and his memorization here, he went to Istanbul in 1895 with his uncle Mustafa Efendi for his education and settled in the Little Hagia Sophia Madrasa.
Yazir, who also took calligraphy lessons during his education, won the "ruus" exam in 1904.
Muhammed Hamdi, who graduated from the Maktab al-Nawab, which was established instead of the Qadi School, with the first place, also learned literature, philosophy and music with his own efforts.
WORKED TO DEVELOP A MODEL OF CONSTITUTIONALITY IN LINE WITH SHARIA
Muhammed Hamdi Yazır started to defend the constitutional administration in the hope that it would be instrumental in bringing the country to the level of modern science and civilization and became a member of the ilmiye branch of the Committee of Union and Progress, which represents this view.
He worked to develop a constitutionalism model in accordance with sharia instead of a European-style constitutionalism.
After working as a lecturer in Beyazıt Madrasah for 2 years, Yazır entered the first parliament of the 2. Constitutional Monarchy as the Antalya deputy.
Afterwards, he worked at the Shaikh Al-Islam Letters Office and taught logic, fiqh and foundation law in madrasahs.
He was appointed as a member of the notables committee on September 15, 1919, and his scientific rank was promoted to the professorship of the Süleymaniye Madrasa.
After the proclamation of the Republic, the institutions where he was a civil servant were abolished, and Yazır was taken from his house in Fatih to Ankara after he was sentenced to death in absentia by the Independence Court for serving in the governments of Istanbul during the National Struggle.
After being detained for forty days, he was found not guilty by the court and released.
Writings by Muhammed Hamdi Yazır
Hak Dīni Kur'an Dili (1935) (A Qur'anic exegesis and translation in Turkish)
Tahlil-i Tarih-i Felsefe-Metâlib ve Mezahib-Maba'de't-Tabia ve Felsefe-i İlahiyye (Turkish translation of Histoire de la philosophie of Paul Janet and Gabriel Seailles)
İrşadü'l Ahlâf fî Ahkâmi'l-Evkâf (A textbook on judgement of estates in mortmain for university students)
Beyânul-Hak (various articles in the journals of Sırat-ı Müstakim and Sebilürreşad)
Elmalılı Küçük Hamdi (Various articles in Beyânül-Hak and Sebîlürreşad (scholarly journals))
Usûl-i Fıkıh (an unpublished book on Islamic jurisprudence)
Sûrî mantık (an unpublished book on logic)
Hukuk Kâmusu (an unfinished dictionary of law)
Divan (an unfinished book)