Tahsin Yazıcı (scholar)
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Tahsin Yazıcı | |
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| Born | 1922 |
| Died | 20 November 2002 (aged 79–80) |
| Known for | Literary scholarship |
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| Alma mater | University of Istanbul |
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Tahsin Yazıcı (1922 – 20 November 2002) was a Turkish literary scholar who was active in the latter half of the 20th century, when he produced his critical edition of Aflākī's Manāqib al-ʿārifīn, a hagiography of the Mevlevi Order,[1] and other works focused on Persian mystic literature. He was also chief editor of the Turkish İslâm Ansiklopedisi for more than two decades.
Yazıcı has been described as an "eminent scholar of Persian and Arabic literatures",[2] and his editions and translations of Mevlevi texts have been called "indispensable".[3]
Yazıcı was born in Hoğas, a village near the town of Kiğı in Bingöl province, into a family of Turkish origin appointed to a position of authority by the Ottoman state.[4]
He matriculated in 1940 at the University of Istanbul and graduated in Arabic and Persian language and literature in 1945, before being hired as a research assistant the following year by the Department of Classic Oriental Languages in the Faculty of Language.[4]
In 1948, he wrote a dissertation on a Turkish Sufi named Ebrahim Golsani for which he received a doctorate in 1949, and in 1952 he was appointed as an assistant professor of Arabic and Persian Language and Literature in the Faculty of Literature.[4]
His academic career was interrupted in 1956–57 when he was drafted into the Turkish army.[4] During this period, he also married and had three children.[4]
