Hayrettin Karaman

Hayrettin Karaman (born in Çorum in 1934 ) is a Turkish Islamic theologian , journalist and writer .

Life

Hayrettin Karaman was born in 1934 on a farm 20 km outside in the Anatolian city ​​of Çorum. Karaman comes from a simple, religiously conservative family. His mother comes from a Meschetian Muhacir family who came to Anatolia in 1893. She was illiterate and already widowed when she met Karaman's father.

Karaman's father was a blacksmith and came from Oltu in the province of Erzurum . The family had left the region in 1910 after the Russian conquest and settled in Çorum. There the father married, lost his wife, married Karaman's future mother and moved into the in- laws' household as a so-called "internal son-in-law" (Turkish: içgüvey ). The father only learned the "new script" during military service . In order to evade state modernization and coercive measures as much as possible, the practice of "secrecy" was practiced as a child .

Karaman received his first Quran lessons from Zahide, his maternal grandmother. Karaman finished elementary school but dropped out of middle school after a year and left the parental household without informing his parents. In Ankara, Karaman tried his hand at street vendors and attended various Koran courses.

At the age of 18, Karaman began secondary school in the İmam-Hatip-Gymnasium in Konya, which had just been established at the time . However, since he had his age reduced by two years, he was expelled from school because his age and the age in the school report did not match. Karaman repeated the examination of the elementary school as a so-called external and continued the İmam-Hatip-Gymnasium. In 1956 he completed his training as an imam and married. He and his wife moved into an apartment with two rooms and a toilet in the garden. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. Karaman then began studying at the newly opened Institute of Islamic Sciences in Istanbul , which he graduated in 1963. In 1971 he became a lecturer (tr. Öğretim üyesi ) there with his work on idschtihād in Islamic law from the beginnings to the 4th century . After this institute was converted into a theological faculty within Marmara University in 1982 , he received his doctorate in 1983, became a docent in 1986 and was appointed professor in 1991. In December 2000 he resigned from his position at the university after more than 40 years of teaching. He has often turned down offers from politics because he wanted to concentrate on the revival of Islamic education on a scientific level.

To this day he works as a columnist for the Istanbul daily newspaper Yeni Şafak . He has also worked as a poet since high school in Konya. His numerous poems were set to music by Mehmet Emin Ay and Amir Ateş and sung as İlahi (religious music).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Karaman in the journal Moral Dünyası, June 2006
2. ↑ Interview with Karaman in the journal Moral Dünyası, June 2006
3. ↑ Interview with Karaman in the journal Moral Dünyası, June 2006

Web links

• Interview with Hayrettin Karaman Interiewer: Bülent Uçar , German translation by Hakki Arslan