Researcher-writer
(B. September 1936, Şeyh Züleyha Village/ Akziyaret District/ Şanlıurfa-
December 26, 2014, Ankara). He is a close student of Badiüzzaman Said Nursi, from Badıllı Tribe. When he was around 7 or 8, he
began to read Koran. After this, he studied Ottoman writing, reading and math
(old-school) for periods of three or four months each.
In 1953, his
visit to Badiüzzaman Said-i Nursi in Isparta was a turning point for his life. After
this visit, he began to stay at Nur madrasahs in
He began to his writing
career with his articles titled as “Haftada Bir” in Yeni Asya newspaper in 1970. By the time, he preferred
investigative writing rather than journalism. All his books were about Risale-i
Nur topics. He couldn’t have time and opportunity to write about something else
other than these topics. Two of his books are translations, and the rest are compilations
and researches. In 1992, Harran University Rectorate gave him an honorary Ph.D.
in 1996, Seyyid Alevi Maliki the Scholar from
WORKS:
RESEARCH-COMPILATION: Siyaset Neşriyat Şerh ve İzah
Mes’eleleri (compilation, from B. S. Nursî, 1979), Risale-i Nurun Neşir
Tarihçesi (1987), Bediüzzaman Said-i Nursi - Mufassal Tarihçe-i Hayat
(3 vol., 1990, exp. ed. 2, 1998), Peyvenpüçuk (Küçük Sözler, translation
from B. S. Nursî to Kurdish, 1992), Bediüzzaman Risale-i Nur’un Kudsi
Kaynakları (1992, gen. ed. 2 1994), İslam
Kardeşliği İçinde Türk-Kürt İlişkisi (1993), Din Tılsımları (1997), Hakkı
Müdafaa Cephesi -Bediüzzaman Said-i Nursi (tsz), Sadeleştirme Asri bir
Tahriftir (tsz), Müslüman Kadının Örtünme Şekli (tsz), İfhamname
(2003), Asar-ı Bediiye (Ottoman Turkish, export, putting in order and
revision, 2004), Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Büyük Lugat (common book
; with Abdullah Yeğin, Abdülkadir Badıllı, Hekimoğlu İsmail, İlham Çalım,
1999), Nur’un Mu’terizlerine Müskit bir Cevabı (2006).
TRANSLATION: Mesnevi-i Nuriye (BSN’s Arabic work
which was called Arabi El Mesnevi. Before,
this book’s abstract was translated by Molla Abdülmecit. He is BSN’s brother,
1980), İşaratü’l İ’caz (BSN’s Arabic work which was, 2004).
REFERENCE: İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).