Musa Carullah

Intellectual, Religious Scholar, Writer

Death
28 October, 1949
Other Names
Musa Jarullah, Musa Bigiev, Musa Bigeev, Musa Jarullah Bigeev

Writer and theologian (B. 1875, Rostovna / Don / Russia – D. October 29, 1949, Cairo / Egypt). He is a Kazan Turk. He began with his education in Gölboyu Madrasah in Kazan. But he returned to Rostov after a short while. He was mostly interested in mathematics and sciences; so he was enrolled at Real School of Russians. He went to Bukhara in order to engage in Islamic law and history; but he was disappointed. So he went to Istanbul and then to Egypt to continue with his training. After staying there for a couple of months, he went to Hejaz, Mecca and Medina; then returned to Rostov via India in 1904. He attended to Petersburg Faculty of Law for a while. He taught Arabic and religious history lectures at Huseyniye Madrasah in Orenburg (1909).

 His first articles were published in Ülfet newspaper. Then he wrote in Şûra journal. Following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, he was arrested at a travel to Taşkent and imprisoned for eleven months. He prepared the alphabet of Islam and it was published in Berlin in 1923. After the publication of this work, Musa Carullah was arrested by Russians and imprisoned in Moscow. He was released three months later with the attempt of his fellow countrymen living in Finland and help of İsmet İnonu.

He attended to the Mecca Islam Assembly in 1926. He went to East Turkistan as his life was endangered, then he took refuge in Afghanistan. He went to Finland in 1931, via India and Egypt.

He participated as an audience to the First Turkish History Congress organized in Ankara in 1932, then he left Turkey and travelled the Middle Eastern countries. He returned to Finland in 1933. He traveled Iran, Iraq and Egypt. He went to Japan and China in 1938, and returned to India in 1938 after the beginning of Second World War. He considered settling down in Afghanistan, but British have suspected and arrested him; he was imprisoned for eighteen months. He was released from the prison with the help of Behopal ruler Muhammed Hamidullah and he was taken to the palace. He came to Turkey in 1947 and became a Turkish citizen.

WORKS:

Rusya Müslümanlarının 3. Nedvesi (1906), Müslüman İttifakının Programı ve Şerhi (1906), Rahmet-i İlahiye Buhranları (1911), Uzun Günlerde Ruze (1911), Uzun Günlerde Oruç (1975), Siyonizm (1911), Nazimetü’z-Zehra (1912), Islâhat Esasları (1914), Zekât (1916), Şeriat Esasları (1916), Tarihü’l-Kur’an ve’1-Mesahif (1923), Nizamü’t-Takvim fi’1-İslâm (1935), Eyyamu Hayatı’n-Nebiy (1935), El-Kanunu’l-Medeni fi’1-İslâm (1946), Kitâbu’s-Sünne (1998), İslâm’ın Elifba’sı (2000).

REFERENCE:  Mehmet Görmez / Musa Cârullah Bigiyef (1994), Ertuğrul Yaman / Türkiye’deki Türk Dünyası (A.K. Bolaç ve A. Esatoğlu ile, 1998), Ölümünün 50. Yıldönümünde Musa Cârullah Bigiyef ‘1875-1949’ (2002), Ahmet Kanlıdere / Kadimle Cedit Arasında Musa Cârullah: Hayatı, Eserleri, Fikirleri (2005) -  “Musa Carullah” (TDV İslam Ansiklopedisic. 31,  s. 214-216, 2006), İhsan Işık / Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006), ‘Çare, 500 yıldır Bosna’da süregelen İslam’ (Haberturk, 18 Ocak 2015), İhsan Işık / Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) – Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors (2005) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007) - Ünlü Fikir ve Kültür Adamları (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 3, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013).

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