Âmil Çelebioğlu

Linguistic and literature researcher (B. April 20, 1934, Karaman- D. July 2, 1995, Mecca). He moved to Istanbul with his parents when he was seven years old. He was graduated from Salacak Primary School, Paşakapısı Secondary School, Istanbul Male High School (1955). He went Istanbul University Faculty of Literature Turkish Language and Literature Department, graduated from Art History Department (1961). He worked as teacher and principal in Konya High School (1964-65), Konya Selçuk Education Institute (1965-66). He began to work as an assistant in Istanbul University Faculty of Literature in 1966. In 1971, he started to work at Erzurum Ataturk University Islamic Sciences Faculty. Within the same year, he received his PhD. with the thesis titled “Yazıcıoğlu Mehmed ve Muhammediyesi”.

In 1977, he began to work at Hacettepe University Social and Administrative Sciences Faculty and he became associate professor with the thesis “Sultan II. Murad Devri Mesnevileri”, professor in 1982. Within the same year, he was assigned as dean to the Istanbul Marmara University Ataturk Education Faculty. A year later, he resigned from his duty as a dean and he worked as lecturer until his death. He has lyrics and syllabic meter poems written under the nickname Çelebioğlu’s Hayranî. His writings and poems were published in Diyanet, İslâmî İlimler, Türk Kültürü, Millî Kültür magazines. He died during his visit to Mecca in a tunnel accident.

WORKS:

Mesnevî-i Şerif (translation of text and poetic, 3 vol., 1967-72), Ramazanname (1973), Muhammediye / Yazıcıoğlu Mehmed (4 vol., 1974), Türk Bilmeceler Hazinesi (with Y. Ziya Öksüz, 1979), Türk Ninniler Hazinesi (1982), Erzurumlu İbrahim Hakkı (1988), Ali Nihad Tarlan (1989).

REFERENCE:  İhsan Işık / Yazarlar Sözlüğü (1990, 1998) - Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007), Abdulkerim Abdulkadiroğlu / Millî Kültür (sayı: 76, 1990) – Türk Edebiyatı (sayı: 203, 1990), Mustafa Ruhi Şirin / Türk Edebiyatı (sayı: 205, Kasım 1990), Cemal Kurnaz / Türk Yurdu (sayı: 36, 1990)- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (c. 8, 1993), Nihat Öztoprak / Türk Edebiyatı (sayı: 213, Temmuz 1991) - Amil Çelebioğlu’nun Hayatı ve Bibliyografyası (1993), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001).