İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca

İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca (* 1875 in the village of Tophane, district İskilip; † February 4, 1926 in Ankara) was a Turkish religious scholar and author. He founded in 1919 along with two other scholars the Cemiyet -i Tired Risin, a religious organization against the national movement under Atatürk and for the occupying power. In the wake of riots after the promulgation of Hutgesetzes he was sentenced by a court for Independence organization and incitement to riot to death and hanged. A role was played by his pamphlet Frenk Mukallidliği ve sapka ( " The imitation of the West and the hat ").

Life

Born in a village, the son of Mehmed Ali Agha, who traced his origin to the Beys of Akkoyunlu and from one originating from Mecca Arab mother Nazlı Hanim, Atıf was already at the age of six months orphan. He was raised by his grandfather. He received first religious instruction in İskilip. Later he went against the wishes of the family to continue his education after Istanbul. He qualified in 1902. He worked in the Fatih Mosque, completed in 1905 the theological faculty of the Darülfünun and then worked as Arabic teacher at a high school. Due to his political activities, he was banished from Şeyhülislam to Bodrum and then went to the Crimea and to Warsaw. After the proclamation of the Second Ottoman constitutional period Atıf Efendi returned.

In the uprising of 31 March Atıf Efendi was detained for the duration of a week, and later sent into exile in 1913, for an alleged involvement in the killing of Mahmoud Pasha Şevket one more time. Eighteen months later he returned to Istanbul and remained four years of work. In 1919 he founded, together with Mustafa Sabri Cemiyet -i Tired Risin, which should be named later to the Teâli Islam Cemiyeti. It acted for the government Damat Ferid and the occupying power and against the national movement in Ankara.

As broke out in the wake of violent protests in some cities Hutgesetzes he was arrested for the riots due to organization and incitement. A role was played by his pamphlet entitled "Imitation of the West", which he had written in 1924. In this document, Atif argued that the influences from the West would alienate the Turks of their religion. Aspects such as alcohol, prostitution, bars, as well as hats, theater and dance are harmful influences of the West. Hats may be a sign of the unbelievers and from the date when the Muslims would have had enough power, they would visually separated the different faiths to right of the Muslims. Cancel this separation with the introduction of the hat, is Kufr. However, it is allowed in Islam to imitate other aspects of the Europeans - eg Eating and sleeping habits. Ultimately, is based, according to Atıf Efendi the whole European civilization on the Islamic. Europe must still work very hard to reach the excellent level of civilization as the Sharia.

The independence Ankara court remanded the case Giresun. There was an odyssey to Istanbul and turn to Ankara, where he stood before the court in 1926. The prosecutor asked for a sentence of three years of forced labor. However, the court imposed the death penalty. On February 4, 1926 İskilipli Mehmed Efendi Atıf was hanged in Ankara on a marketplace. His body was interred in the cemetery Mamak and 1954 reburied.

Atıf Efendi's life was with the work - filmed " İskilipli Atıf Hoca Kelebekler Sonsuza Ucar ".