World-renowned Islamic scholar, thinker Cevdet Said passed away at the age of 91 in Istanbul.
Cevdet Said was receiving intensive care treatment at Istanbul Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital.
Said was especially known for his advocacy of an unarmed solution to the Syrian issue and his oppositional ideas against violence and conflicts among Muslims.
After the news of Said's death, thousands of condolence messages were published from Turkey and the Islamic world.
WORKED FOR THE FACILITY OF ISLAMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
Cevdet Said, who has a chair in Al Azhar, gives conferences all over the world and has many books, was born in 1931 in the village of Bi'ri Acem in the Golan region of Syria.
Said came from a family belonging to the Tsey dynasty of the Adyghe Abzeh tribe.
Said studied the middle department of Azhar University and graduated from the Faculty of Arabic Language and Literature of the same university.
Continuing his writing, research, research and conference activities that he started since the late 1950s, Said focused on issues such as re-correcting Islamic consciousness, rejection of violence, reconciliation, agreement, specialization and coexistence.
Said settled in Turkey on 20 December 2012 and decided to continue his life here.
The late Cevdet Said, in the Erbakan Awards Program organized by the Felicity Party Headquarters in 2017; He was deemed worthy of the Thought and Literature Award, and the award was presented to him by Temel Karamollaoğlu.
KARAMOLLAOĞLU ISSUES A CONDOLENCE MESSAGE
Felicity (Saadet) Party High Advisory Board and Chairman Temel Karamollaoğlu issued a condolence message for the deceased writer-thinker Cevdet Said.
Karamollaoğlu, in his message, "It is with deep sadness that I learned of the death of Cevdet Said, one of the important thinkers of the Islamic world. May Allah have mercy on the deceased; I wish patience and condolences to his family, Syrian and Caucasian Muslims, and the entire Islamic world. May his place be heaven and his rank high," he said.