A müderris (professor) and şeyh born in 1823 in Dereköy, Emirdağ, Afyonkarahisar. He studied in Bolvadin, Konya, Istanbul and at al-Azhar in Egypt, obtaining authorisation in twelve Sufi orders; he led the Naqshbandi order in Damascus and the Mevlevi line in Afyon. Settling in Karacalar village late in life, he founded a medrese training hundreds of students and died there in 1907. (Sources: Abdülhalim Durma, Afyon Evliyaları; academic article on Hak Halîlî Dergâhı, Dergipark 2022)