Sîdîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî

Sîdîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî
Sadîc Ibraim
Born 1909
Kíşke Tatlîğak/Dulceşti, Constanța County, Romania
Died 1959 (aged 4950)
Constanța, Romania
Resting place
Constanta Muslim Central Cemetery
44°10′24″N 28°37′19″E / 44.173435°N 28.621952°E
Nationality Crimean Tatar
Occupation Mufti of Constanta County
Years active 1943-1945
Predecessor Kurt-Amet Mustafa
Successor Reşit Seit-Veli
Religion Muslim

Sîdîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî (known in Romanian as Sadîc Ibraim) (1909-1959) was a Crimean Tatar spiritual leader, imam, Mufti of the Muslim community of Romania.

Biography

Sîdîk was born in 1909 to Ibrahim Hağî Mîrzî (1881-1960) and Zebide (1888-1968) in Kíşke Tatlîğak, known today as Dulceşti, a village situated in the Tatar countryside west of Mangalia.

He served as Mufti of Constanta County between 1943 and 1945. He was preceded by Kurt-Amet Mustafa and succeeded by Reşit Seit-Veli.

In 1945 he was arrested and investigated facing charges of traveling to Crimea sent by the Gestapo to determine the separation of Crimea from the Soviet Union, creating in Romania nests of Crimean Tatars aimed at defaming in the highest degree the Soviet state and its army, helping the Germans to recruite Crimean Tatars charged of being Soviet patriots who were taken to Germany and whose existence is unknown.[1]

Sîdîk passed away in 1959 in Constanţa. He is resting in Constanta Muslim Central Cemetery at: 44.173435, 28.621952.

Citations

Sources

  • Lascu, Stoica (24 September 2013), "Turco-tătarii dobrogeni în lumina unor mărturii arhivistice constănțene (1885-1948)", in Tasin Gemil, Gabriel Custurea, Delia Roxana Cornea(coord.), Simpozionul Internațional: Moștenirea culturală turcă în Dobrogea (in Romanian), Constanța: Muzeul de Istorie Națională și Arheologie

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