Abstract:

Ismail Hakkı Izmirli who witnessed the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the first period of the Republic of Turkey, is one of the personalities who wrote articles in many fields such as Qur'anic sciences, kalām, fiḳh, Ḥadīth, philosophy and logic. Izmirli worked as a teacher, professor, director, inspector and member in various institutions. He made significant contributions in these fields by making a great struggle with the books and articles he wrote, by producing solutions to the problems and issues that appeared in the political, social, intellectual and cultural life of the period he was in. The fact that Izmirli wrote articles on various subjects in important journals such as “Sebilürresad” and “Ceride-i Ilmiyye” reveals that he was not independent of the issues of his time. As a matter of fact, one of these articles is an article that published in the journal “Sebilürresad” under the name of “Is it Wād̲j̲ib for Every Muslim to Wrap the Imāma?” In this article, Izmirli, replied to an article which was state, that the Imāma is wād̲j̲ib, and analyzed and criticizes the subject within the framework of the science of hadith and fiqh. In this study, Izmirli’s article, which deals with the transmissions about the Imāma and the Imāma wrapping, is examined.

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