İlhan Arsel
İlhan Arsel (born April 5, 1920 in Istanbul , † February 7, 2010 in Florida , USA ) was a Turkish constitutional lawyer , university professor and critic of religion .
Live and act
Arsel studied at the University of Ankara and Geneva law . At the end of the 1950s, the Democratic Party experienced a slump in approval, but thanks to the majority vote it still held a qualified majority in parliament. The government under Adnan Menderes began to secure dictatorial rights and to eliminate democratic ones. As a result , parts of the military sided with the opposition on May 27, 1960 and ended the rule of the Menderes party. Just one day later, ten legal scholar at the University of Ankara were assigned one to design new constitution . Arsel was a member of this so-called Onar Commission. The new constitution came into force on July 20, 1961. On June 10, 1966, President Cevdet Sunay offered him the right to a seat as a quota senator, which he was entitled to as one of the constitutional fathers. He refused this seat and decided to continue teaching as a professor. For the fourteen-volume series on the constitutions of the world, he contributed from 1971 to the contributions on Belgium and Turkey. In the 1970s he first published his work Die Sharia und die Frauen , which appeared in German in 2012. The book was banned in Turkey by the chief prosecutor. Arsel then sued the Public Prosecutor and the Office of Religious Affairs on the grounds of distributing religiously motivated misogynist writings. Both lawsuits were dismissed. In protest against the silence of his university lecturers in view of the advancing spread of religion in society, he wrote a critical reply against the silence of the intellectuals. As a result, he gave up his professorship in 1977 for fear of reprisals and pressure and emigrated.
Publications
- İlhan Arsel: "Women are your fields" - women in Islamic law, Alibri-Verlag , Aschaffenburg 2012 (translated by Arzu Toker )
- Second, expanded edition, Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86569-227-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about İlhan Arsel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arzu Toker: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Ilhan Arsel
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Ilhan-Arsel-87884690
- ↑ http://www.arzutoker.de/nachruf.html
- ↑ http://hpd.de/node/13664
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arsel, İlhan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish constitutional lawyer and critic of religion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 2010 |
| Place of death | Florida |