Necip Fazıl Kısakürek

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Necip Fāzıl Kısakürek (born May 25, 1905 in Çemberlitaş Istanbul , † May 25, 1983 in Istanbul) was a Turkish poet, author, playwright and anti-Semitic - Islamist ideologist.

Life

His father was Abdülbaki Fazıl Bey, his mother Mediha Hanım. The father's family originally came from Kahramanmaraş . Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was actually called Ahmed Necip. He was born in Çemberlitaş in the villa of his grandfather, a former presiding judge of a murder court. Kısakürek attended an American and a French school as well as other elementary and middle schools. He finished middle school on Heybeliada . Kısakürek attended the naval school for five years without obtaining a degree, before moving to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1924 after having started but not finished studying philosophy at the Darülfünun , where he also joined the philosophy faculty until 1925 with a state scholarship enrolled. In Paris, he did not complete a regular course of studies, but lived in the style of a bohemian. After returning to Turkey, Kısakürek worked in various positions as a bank clerk. He taught at a French school at Robert College , at the Ankara State Conservatory and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi . After 1942 he gave up this employment and lived as a publisher and author.

Political influence

Influenced by Abdülhakim Arvâsi (1865–1943), Kısakürek developed the idea of ​​the “ Islamic Great East ” (İslami Büyük Doğu) in the 1940s , whereby several states are to be combined into a large Islamic unit. The later founder of the militant Islamist İBDA-C , Salih Mirzabeyoğlu , met Kısakürek at the age of 18 and was strongly influenced by him and his ideas. As a result, the İBDA-C was strongly based on Mirzabeyoğlu's interpretations of Kısakürek's texts.

Based on anti-Semitic ideas from Europe, but also under the influence of the powerful Islamist intellectual and anti-Semite Nurettin Topçu (1909–1975), Kısakürek viewed the Jews as the corrupting element within Western civilization and described them as the originators of Marxism and capitalism. Kısakürek's publications included the Turkish translation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the praise of Henry Ford's The International Jew, as well as a political program in which he wrote: “Among those treacherous and insidious elements that must be removed , belong above all the Dönme and the Jews ”. The German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel described Kısakürek in 2016 as “an ordinary anti-Semite who called for Alevis and other deviants from Sunni Islam to be 'pulled up and thrown away like weeds'”.

Works

Kısakürek wrote a large number of books, newspaper articles, plays and poems, which, in addition to numerous prizes, earned him several years in prison for “strong opposition” to İsmet Paşa and the Republican People's Party .

literature

  • Suzan Stutz: Islam and Modernity. An outline of the inner-Muslim discussion in the 20th century. KIT Scientific Publ., Karlsruhe 2013 (also Diss. Phil. KIT , Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2012), ISBN 386644995X , pp. 194–236.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Orient-Institut : Exile opposition as a political actor (I): Opposition groups from Turkey  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. October 4, 2002@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.giga-hamburg.de  
  2. ↑ Cf. Burhanettin Duran, Cemil Aydın: “Competing Occidentalisms of Modern Islamist Thought: Necip Fazıl Kısakürek and NurettinTopçu on Christianity, the West and Modernity” , academia.edu, 2014
  3. ↑ See Kısakürek, Necip Fazıl (1968). İdeolocya örgüsü (10th edition). Istanbul: Büyük Doğu Yayınları, p. 71. ISBN 9789758180325 ; and: Marc David Baer: "An Enemy Old and New: The Dönme, Anti-Semitism, and Conspiracy Theories in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic" , Jewish Quarterly Review 103.4 (2013), pp. 523-555, Project MUSE. Web. Aug 12, 2014
  4. ↑ So Deniz Yücel in his book "Taksim is everywhere - the Gezi movement and the future of Turkey" , Nautilus-Verlag, 2016
  5. ↑ Partially readable in online bookshops. Fully readable on the KIT server as .pdf, also accessible via the DNB server
personal data
SURNAME Kısakürek, Necip Fazıl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kısakürek, Necip Fāzıl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer, poet and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1983
Place of death Istanbul