Salih Mirzabeyoğlu (real name Salih İzzet Erdiş; 10 May 1950, in Erzincan – 16 May 2018, in Yalova)[1] was a Kurdish-Turkish Islamic fundamentalist[2] with Bitlis Province[3][4][5][6] origin. His family were close to both the Naqshbandi and Nurcu Islamic brotherhoods, and were involved with the Kurdish Sheikh Said rebellion in 1925 against the newly founded Turkish Republic.[7] Most of his supporters were Kurds.[8]
Salih Mirzabeyoğlu | |
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 Salih Mirzabeyoğlu | |
| Born | Salih İzzet Erdiş May 10, 1950 |
| Died | May 16, 2018 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Occupation | Author |
| Known for | Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (İBDA-C) |
In 1975, he and his friends published a political magazine called Gölge (Shadow). Mirzabeyoğlu was influenced by the Islamist poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek who published a magazine called Büyük Doğu.[7]
He is the ideologue and alleged leader of the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (İBDA-C), a militant Islamist group present in Turkey.[9] He was arrested on 29 December 1998 for allegedly trying to overthrow the constitutional order by force. Subsequently, following the İBDA-C concept of 'leaderless resistance', further attacks on banks, synagogues, churches, places serving alcohol and TV stations were claimed by groups who said they were part of İBDA-C. The bombings in Istanbul claimed 65 lives including that of the British consul general Roger Short.[7] Mirzabeyoğlu was sentenced to life imprisonment.[10]
On 23 July 2014, he was released from prison, and on 29 November 2014 consulted with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[11]
Bibliography
editHe has written 50 books.
- Bütün Fikrin Gerekliliği (Necessity of Whole Idea)
- Tarihten Bir Yaprak (A Paper from History)
- Necip Fazıl'la Baş Başa (with Necip Fazıl)
- Kültür Davamız (Our Culture Thesis)
- Şiir ve Sanat Hikemiyatı (Poetry and Art Philosophy)
- İstikbal İslâmındır (The Future Belongs to Islam)
- Anafor (Whirlpool - poems)
- Adımlar (Steps - interviews)
- Büyük Muztaribler 1-2-3 (Great Agitateds - philosophy history)
- Tilki Günlüğü 1-2-3-4-5-6 (Fox Diary - spiritual novel)
- Sefine (Ship - philosophy of physics)
- Elif (Aleph - painting)
- Yağmurcu (Rainer)
- Hırka-ı Tecrid
- Marifetname
- Yaşamayı Deneme (Trying to Live - novel)
- Hakikat-i Ferdiye
- Furkan (different kind of dictionary)
- Telegram
- Müjdelerin Müjdesi (stories)
- Münşeat (a different kind of poems)
- İBDA Diyalektiği (Dialect of İBDA)
- İslam'a Muhatap Anlayış (Understanding Towards to Islam)
- Kavgam 1-2 (My Struggle)
- Sahabinin Rolü ve Manası (Role and Meaning of Disciple)
- Hukuk Edebiyatı (Literature of the Laws)
- Başyücelik Devleti (State of Başyücelik)
- Aydınlık Savaşçıları (Fighters of Light - epic)
- Dil ve Anlayış (Language and Understanding)
- Kökler (Roots)
- Kayan Yıldız Sırrı (Mystery of Slipping Star - poem)
- İktisat ve Ahlâk (Economics and Morality)
- Parakuta (about politics/aesthetics of money)
- Önsöz (Preface)
- İdeolocya ve İhtilâl (Ideology and Revolution)
- Hikemiyat (Philosophies)
- İşkence (Torture - anecdote)
- Gölgeler (Shadows - novel)
- Damlaya Damlaya
- Üç Işık (Three Lights)
- Erkam (Philosophy of mathematics)
- Berzah
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Salih Mirzabeyoğlu vefat etti". Mynet Haber. 16 May 2018.
- ^ German Jihad: On the Internationalisation of Islamist Terrorism, Guido Steinberg. 2013. p. 114. "As in the Hizbullah, most, if not all, IBDA-C members are ethnic Kurds like the organizations founding leader....
- ^ "Biyografi: Salih Mirzabeyoğlu biyografisi". www.biyografi.net. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ Alakom, Rohat (2004). Orta Anadolu Kürtleri (in Turkish). Evrensel Basım Yayın. ISBN 9789756525777.
- ^ Musa, Şaşmaz. Mutki Aşiretinden Kürt Musa Bey Olayı. Kitabevi.
- ^ Prof.Dr.Nur, Serter. Dinde Siyasal İslam Tekeli.
- ^ a b c Mango, Andrew (2005). Turkey and the War on Terror: For Forty Years We Fought Alone. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415350020.
- ^ German Jihad: On the Internationalisation of Islamist Terrorism, Guido Steinberg. 2013. p. 114. "As in the Hizbullah, most, if not all, IBDA-C members are ethnic Kurds like the organizations founding leader....
- ^ Encyclopedia of terrorism, Ed. Harvey W. Kushner, (SAGE Publications, 2003), 151.
- ^ "Salih Mirzabeyoğlu takma isimli Salih İzzet Erdiş İBDA/C liderine ölüm cezası". NTV-MSNBC (in Turkish). Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
- ^ "National Islamist leader meets Erdoğan". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2014-12-02.