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Gedikhasanlı Şakir Efendi (Mehmet Şakir Suntay)

Died: 1937
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A scholar born in 1853 whose family migrated from Kayseri and settled in Gedikhasanlı village of Sorgun. He studied under his father Ali Efendi and at the Osman Paşa Medrese in Yozgat, and obtained his license in Kayseri. He taught at the Demirli and Osman Paşa medreses, mastering Arabic, hadith and exegesis, and was a Naqshbandi guiding master. He died in 1937 in Gedikhasanlı and was buried at the village cemetery. (Sources: Yozgat Provincial Directorate; Kültür Portalı)

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