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A scholar and preacher from the district of Çaykara in Trabzon; a teacher who went on training students in the years when the medreses were closed.
He was born in 1909 in the village of Akdoğan in Çaykara. His family is traced to a line that came to this region fleeing the pursuit of Shah Ismail in the time of Şehzade Selim. His father Mehmed Zeki Efendi died on the Sarıkamış front in the First World War; his mother was Âkıle Hanım.
He read the Qur'an in the village mosque; he studied with Salih Bilgin (Hacı Salih Efendi) and with Veliefendizâde Tayyip Zühdü Efendi. When the medreses were closed in 1923 he had to continue at primary school. In 1938 he completed his study of the religious sciences by receiving authorisation from Tayyip Zühdü Efendi. He memorised the Qur'an and studied the science of the readings under Mehmet Rüştü Âşıkkutlu.
His turn to Sufism began with an allegiance he gave in a dream to Ferşad Efendi, a deputy of Gümüşhânevî. He read the works of Gaybî, Niyâzî-i Mısrî and İsmâil Hakkı Bursevî. At Istanbul he received investiture from Mehmet Zahit Kotku.
Between 1938 and 1944 he served as imam at Doğançay and Yukarı Kışlacık; between 1944 and 1982 he held the office of preacher at Akçaabat, Of and Çaykara for thirty-eight years. In the periods when the teaching of the religious sciences was forbidden he went on giving lessons in secret.
He died on 30 March 1982 of a heart attack in the village where he was born.
His Circle of Influence — He graduated about 300 students in twenty-two cycles. Among those he trained are Ali Fikri Yavuz, who served as deputy mufti of Istanbul, and his sons Yunus Vehbi, Yusuf Şevki and Salih Sabri, who became university professors.
His Works — His books Müminlere Vaazlar (2007) and Mahrem Sözler (2007) have been published.
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The record of descent is an attribution. The family's coming to the region in flight from the pursuit of Shah Ismail in the time of Şehzade Selim is traced; the source does not tie it to a document.
Sources
- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) — Yusuf Şevki Yavuz · vol. 43, pp. 351-352, entry “YAVUZ, Hasan Rami”
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