Literature researcher (b. 24 Mat 1924,
Harput / Elazığ – d. 8 September 2001, İstanbul). He completed his primary and
elementary education in Elazığ. He passed the free boarding exam of the
İstanbul High Teacher’s School and entered into (1944) İstanbul University, the
Faculty of Letters, Department of Turkology and graduated from that department in 1948. He worked as a teacher of
literature in Diyarbakır and Aydın high schools. He administered the review Karacadağ during his education in Diyarbakır.
He was sent to Paris to undergo training by the Ministry of Public Education.
He was appointed to the İstanbul Çapa Institute of Education as a teacher of
literature. He stayed at his post until to 1969. Meanwhile he graduated from
Ankara University, the Faculty of Law (1960). He worked as a lecturer at the
High Teacher’s School from 1969 and retired in 1974. Afterwards, he gave
lectures of literature in Turkish Music Conservatoire.
First article of Ahmet Kabaklı (Yunus Emre mi Haklı, Gölpınarlı mı?, Who
is Right, Yunus Emre or Gölpınarlı?) was published in the newspaper Son Saat on 20 November 1946. His
polemic articles were published in the review Hareket that was published by Nurettin Topçu, his political humors
and commentaries were published in the review Bizim Türkiye. His poetry and articles were also published in the
reviews Hisar and Yeni İstanbul. He won the anecdote award
that held by the newspaper Tercüman
(with Emil Galip Sandalcı and Hakkı Gülmen) and continued to write anecdotes
with intervals. He founded the Turkish Literature Association with his friends
Nihat Sami Banarlı, Mehmet Kaplan, Mümtaz Turhan, Tarık Buğra and İrfan
Atasagun. He administered the review Türk
Edebiyatı (January 1972) that was published by this association. He was
also one of the founders of the Turkish Literature Foundation that he
constituted by academicians and writers. He is among the most important writers
of our late literature and thought life with his history of literature Türk Edebiyatı and various thought books
that he has published lately. He was buried to Eyüp Sultan Cemetery. He won the
1976 Turkey Association of National Culture Thought Award with Bürokrasi ve Biz (Bureaucracy and Us)
and the Writers Union of Turkey Thought Award with the first volume of his work
Temellerin Duruşması (The Trial of
the Foundations). He was given the Şeyh-ül Muharrir title of privilege in
December 1996 (on the 50th anniversary of his thought life) with
pioneering of the Guild of Intellectuals.
WORKS:
ESSAY-RESEARCH-BIOGRAPHY: Kültür
Emperyalizmi (Cultural Imperi–alism, 1970), Müslüman Türkiye (Muslim Turkey, 1970), Mabet ve Millet (The Temple and the Nation, 1970), Mehmet Akif (Mehmet Akif, 1970), Yunus Emre (Yunus Emre, 1971), Mevlânâ
(Mevlana, 1975), Ejderha Taşı
(The Dragon Stone, 1975; translated into Azeri Turkish by Azize Caferzade in
1992), Bizim Alkibiades (Our
Alkibiaders, 1978), Ecurufya
(Ecurufia, 1981), Sohbetler
(Conversations, in 2 volumes, 1987), Temellerin
Duruşması (The Trial of the Foundations, 1989), Güneydoğu Yakından (North-East Closely, 1990), Şiir İncelemeleri (Poetry Researches, 1992), Doğudan Doğuş (Rising from the East, 1993), Türk Edebiyatı (Turkish Literature, 5 volumes, 1991-1994), Sultanüş'Şuara Necip Fazıl (Necip Fazıl,
King of the Poets, 1995), Şair-i Cihan
Nedim (Nedim, The World Poet, 1996), Nazım
Hikmet (Nazım Hikmet, 2002), Temellerin
Duruşması 2 - Gazi ve Atatürkçüler (The Trial of the Foundations, Gazi and
Kemalists, 2002), Alperen (Fighter,
2002), Millete Vurulan Canlı Pranga:
Bürokrasi (Shackle That Bind the Nation: Bureaucracy, 2002), Devlet Felsefemiz (Our Philosophy of
State, 2002), Çağlara Hükmedenler (Ones That Rule Over The Ages, 2003), Türkiye'yi Yoğuranlar (Ones that Knead
Turkey, 2003), İstanbul Güldestesi
(İstanbul Anthology, 2003).
SIMPLIFICATON: Şehir Mektupları I (City Letters by Ahmet Rasim, 1971), Muhayyelât-ı Aziz Efendi (The Dreams of
Aziz Efendi by Cretan Aziz Efendi, 1983).
He has also translations.
REFERENCE: İhsan Işık / Yazarlar Sözlüğü (1990, 1998) - Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) – Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors (2005) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2007) – Ünlü Fikir ve Kültür Adamları (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 3, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Fomous People (2013), Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (18. bas. 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (gen. 6. bas. 1999), Beşir Ayvazoğlu / TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (c. 24, 2001), Erol Ülgen / Ahmet Kabaklı (Türk Edebiyatı, Mart-Nisan 2001), Aslı Örnek / Temellerin Duruşması 2 - Gazi ve Atatürkçüler (Radikal Kitap, 22.10.2002), Muhsin İlyas Subaşı / Temellerin Duruşması (Türk Edebiyatı, Temmuz 2003), Mehmet Nuri Yardım / Yazar Olacak Çocuklar (2004).
