İsmail Ağa Congregation
The İsmail Ağa community ( İsmail Ağa Cemaati ) is an Islamic community known throughout Turkey in the Çarşamba district of Istanbul in the Fatih district . The center of the village is İsmail-Agha Mosque, in 1723 by the then Scheichülislam was built Ebuishak İsmail Efendi. The community is close to the religious order of the Nakşibendi and is considered a Tarikat . The following is estimated at 100,000 people across Turkey.
The community is led by Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu (Mahmut Hodscha). Its clothing and behavior are orthodox, Sunni and anti-modern. The women cover themselves and the men wear beards, long robes and shawls . The muezzin of the community call to prayer without a microphone.
The community hit the headlines several times. In 1982 the Mufti of Üsküdar, Hasan Ali Ünal, who was hostile to the community, was murdered. In 1998, Mahmud Hodscha's brother-in-law and possible successor, Imam Hızır Ali Muratoğlu, was murdered in the mosque. Two people close to him were murdered in 2000 and 2001. Press reports with vacation photos of Cübbeli Ahmet (Ahmet with the robe) also made headlines. In 2006 Imam Bayram Ali Öztürk was stabbed to death in front of everyone during morning prayer. The community then lynched the killer. Öztürk was traded as the successor to Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu. There was speculation in the press about a possible power struggle within the community.
The newspaper Furkan , which was initiated in 1995 as a community newspaper, serves as the community's press organ . After the arrest (1998), conviction and release (2005) of the newspaper's editor-in-chief in the trial against İBDA-C , she continued as Yeni Furkan .
The jihad to protect the "homeland of Islam" is a religious duty considered and divine task.
Individual evidence
- ^ Radikal newspaper of September 13, 2006 ( Memento of March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Aksion magazine No. 614 ( Memento from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Aktifhaber Internet portal ( Memento of November 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ dergilik.com ( Memento from March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ismailaga.info
literature
- Ruşen Çakır: Ayet ve slogan. Türkiye'de İslami Oluşumlar (= Yaşadığımız thinya dizisi. Vol. 18). Metis Yayınları, Istanbul 1990, ISBN 975-7650-43-9 .