İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca

unreviewed article İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca was an Islamic scholar. He was born in Tophane , Çorum in Turkey , in 1875. He started his early education in his village. In 1893 he came to Istanbul for Madrasa ("school" in Arabic) education. He finished his faculty in 1903 and started working as Ders-i Amm (Ulema, a person who teaches the Madrasa students) in the Fatih Mosque. He was later arrested and taken to jail several times, but freed. During the westernization movement in Turkey, he wrote a book called "Frenk Mukallitliği ve Şapka" (literally, "Westernization and the Hat") in 1924. Later he was arrested and accused of violating the "Şapka Kanunu" (The Hat Act), a law passed on 25 November 1925, which indicated that everyone should wear hats, while banning the wearing of religious clothes and the fez. Atif Hodja stood trial in Giresun Liberty Court but was found innocent and was released. However, he was later re-arrested and was sent to Ankara on 26 December 1925. He stood trial on Tuesday 26 January 1926, in Ankara. The attorney general demanded 3 years of imprisonment, but the court postponed the trial to the next day, when the chief justice of the court saw no need to defend the Hodja and declared his decision. The Hodja was sentenced to death. He died on 4 February 1926. His life was made into a movie in 1993, İskilipli Atıf Hoca / Kelebekler Sonsuza Uçar.

He was born in Tophane , Çorum , Turkey . He started his early education in his village. In 1893 he came to Istanbul for Madrasa ("school" in Arabic ) education. In 1902 he started Darü'l-fünun ilahiyat Fafültesi (Darü'l-fünun Divinity School). He finished his faculty in 1903 and started working as Ders-i Amm ( Ulema , a person who teaches the Madrasa students) in the Fatih Mosque . He was later arrested and taken to jail several times, but freed. He was the founding member of Cemiyet-i Müderrisin together with Mustafa Sabri , an Islamic group that supported the government under Damat Ferid and advocated the British Mandate and the Greek invasion of Turkey. They were fiercely against the national government in Ankara which later led the Turks to the Turkish War of Independence . Before the westernization movement in Turkey, he wrote a book titled Frenk Mukallitliği ve Şapka (literally, Westernization and the (European) Hat ) in 1924. In it, he advocated Sharia law and opposed what he called western influences like "Alcohol, Prostitution, Theater, Dance" and the "western hat". From his viewpoint, the western hat was a symbol of the infidels, and wearing a hat would make Muslims to lose their Islamic identity. After the passing of "The Hat Act", a law that passed on 25 November 1925 and ordered that no other headwear except the western hat was allowed (therefore banning the wearing the fez ), violent rebellion broke out in some provinces, which the government suppressed. He was arrested and sent to Ankara on 26 December 1925 where he stood trial on 26 January 1926. The attorney general demanded three years of imprisonment, but the court postponed the trial to the next day. The next day, the Hodja declared that he no longer desired to defend himself. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 4 February 1926.

Turkish Islamic scholar Mehmed Âtıf Hoca ( ) was a Turkish Islamist . He was born in the village of Toyhane , in the district of Bayat, Çorum Province, in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey ) and went to school there. After a couple of years as an imam in İskilip (hence "İskilipli" meaning "from İskilip") in 1893 he went to Istanbul to continue his education, first at a medrese and from 1902 at Darü'l-fünun Faculty of Divinity. He graduated in 1903 and took a job teaching as Ders-i Amm ( Ulama ), at the madrasah in the Fatih Mosque, Istanbul . He was later arrested and jailed several times, but freed. He and Mustafa Sabri were the founding members of Cemiyet-i Müderrisin. They were fiercely against the national government in Ankara which led the Turks to the Turkish War of Independence . In 1924, before the westernization movement in Turkey , he wrote a book titled Frenk Mukallitliği ve Şapka ( Westernization and the [European] Hat ). In it he advocated Sharia law and opposed what he called western influences, such as "Alcohol, Prostitution, Theater, Dance" and the "western hat". From his viewpoint, the western hat was a symbol of the infidels , and wearing a hat would make Muslims lose their Islamic identity. "The Hat Act" was passed on 25 November 1925 by Atatürk , which ordered that no other headgear except the western hat was allowed thus banning wearing the fez . He was arrested and sent to Ankara on 26 December 1925, where he stood trial on 26 January 1926. The prosecutor demanded three years imprisonment, but the court postponed the trial to the next day. The next day, the Hoca declared that he no longer desired to defend himself. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 4 February 1926.

Turkish Islamic scholar Mehmed Âtıf Hoca ( Ottoman Turkish : محمد عاطف خوجه ) was a Turkish Islamist . He was born in the village of Toyhane , in the district of Bayat, Çorum Province, in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey ) and went to school there. After a couple of years as an imam in İskilip (hence "İskilipli" meaning "from İskilip") in 1893 he went to Istanbul to continue his education, first at a medrese and from 1902 at Darü'l-fünun Faculty of Divinity. He graduated in 1903 and took a job teaching as Ders-i Amm ( Ulama ), at the madrasah in the Fatih Mosque, Istanbul . He was later arrested and jailed several times, but freed. He and Mustafa Sabri were the founding members of Cemiyet-i Müderrisin . They were fiercely against the national government in Ankara which led the Turks to the Turkish War of Independence . His father was a Turk from the Akkoyunlu Bayındır tribe, while his mother was an Arab originally from Hijaz . In 1924, before the westernization movement in Turkey , he wrote a book titled Frenk Mukallitliği ve Şapka ( Westernization and the [European] Hat ). In it he advocated Sharia law and opposed what he called western influences, such as "Alcohol, Prostitution, Theater, Dance" and the "western hat". From his viewpoint, the western hat was a symbol of the infidels , and wearing a hat would make Muslims lose their Islamic identity. "The Hat Act" was passed on 25 November 1925 by Atatürk , which ordered that no other headgear except the western hat was allowed thus banning wearing the fez . He was arrested and sent to Ankara on 26 December 1925, where he stood trial on 26 January 1926. The prosecutor demanded three years imprisonment, but the court postponed the trial to the next day. The next day, the Hoca declared that he no longer desired to defend himself. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 4 February 1926.