Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan
Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan (* 1888 in the village Ferhatlar near Silistra in Bulgaria, † September 16, 1959 in Üsküdar, Turkey) was an Islamic scholar of the 20th century and a Naqshbandi sheikh.
Life
Tunahan graduated in 1902 from high school in Silistra and then learned Arabic at the Satırlı Madrasah. In 1907 he continued his religious education continues in Istanbul. He studied the Quran, Tafsir and Hadith at various institutions. In 1918 he received the teaching license and a job as Müderris with a monthly wage of 400 Kurus. In 1920 he received the Ottoman citizenship. Tunahan taught Turkish and Arabic at various madrassas. After the introduction of the Law on Unification of teaching, he resigned his office and taught now honorary Islamic sciences. 1930 left Tunahan Istanbul and worked in agriculture on a farm in Çatalca that his father had left. During this time he taught agricultural laborers and his two daughters and Hatice Ferhan what a taboo represented.
In 1938 he took a job as a preacher and preached now as an employee of the religious authority primarily in the smaller mosques of Istanbul. In 1939 he was arrested and ill-treated three days in police custody. 1943 withdrew the authority of the preacher him permission. 1944 was followed by another, this time eight-day, arrest. He received the preacher permission back in 1950. In 1951 Tunahan his first private Koranic boarding school in Konya. In 1957 he was denounced by a sermon in the Ulu Cami in Bursa. He had proclaimed himself Mahdi, it said. Tunahan was in prison and 59 days later they called for the death penalty against him. The trial ended with an acquittal.
Tunahan was buried in the Karacaahmet Cemetery in Istanbul. The only scripture which he left behind was a seven -sided Elif - Cüz - book, with which one could learn the Arabic script within a few weeks.
Rely on his teachings in Germany in particular, together make up the Association of Islamic Cultural Centres mosque communities, which are called by third parties often pejoratively Süleymancilar.
Swell
- Gerdien Jonker: A wavelength to God. The " Association of Islamic cultural centers " in Europe. Bielefeld 2002, pages 49-77
- Islam Ansiklopedisi, Vol 41, pages 375-377, sv Tunahan, Süleyman Hilmi
- Islamic theologian (Ottoman Empire)
- Turk
- Born in 1888
- Died in 1959
- Man