Esat Erbili

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Contents 1 Esat Erbili 2 Biography 2.1 Meclis-i Meşâyıh 3 Writings 4 Notes

[edit] Esat Erbili

Esat Erbili was a Shaykh of the Naqshbandi order of Sufis and brought a branch of the Naqshbandiyyah with him to Istanbul at the beginning of the First World War.

[edit] Biography

Esat Erbili was born in Erbil in Iraq in the year 1847 (1264) where he studied under Taha al-Hariri. After the death of Shaykh al-Hariri in 1875 he visited Istanbul for a short time, later returning in 1910 to established a Dergah (Tekke) in Üsküdar^[1]

[edit] Meclis-i Meşâyıh

In 1914, Esat Erbili was appointed the head of the Meclis-i Meşâyıh (The Council of Islamic Teachers) in Istanbul and was so until its closure in 1915^[1]

As part of the Atatürk's Reforms, the tekke in Istanbul was closed and eventually Esat Erbili was arrested in 1930 and he died shortly afterwards in a Military Hospital in Izmir.^[1]

[edit] Writings

• Kenzul-Irfan-Translation and Commentary of 100,000 Hadith
• Maktubat (Mektubat) ^[2] - a collection of letters to his students
• Divan - Turkish and Persian Poetry
• Risale-i Es'adiyye - Autobiography
• Tevhid Risalesi Tercümesi - A Commentary of Ibn Arabi's Kitab al-Tawhid
• Fatiha-i Şerife Tercümesi - A Tafsir or commentary of the first chapter of the Qur'an

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Yilmaz, H. Kamil:"Altin Silsile". Erkam Yayinlari (Istanbul). 1994.
2. ^ Muhammad Esat Erbili: "Mektubat". Erkam Yayinlari (Istanbul)