Author
Ferhat Koca
Subject
Caliphate, Islamic law
Type
Book
Language
ara,tur
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
EISSN: 2757-6949, DOI: 10.14395/hid.1074248
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cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_138efbf21a49494ba741b4da463f402a
Library Location
EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete
Notes
Musa Carullah Bigiyef (1875-1949) was born in Rostov, Kazan; He was educated in Bukhara, Egypt, Hejaz and India; He is a scientist who devoted his life to Islamic sciences and various religious, political, social and cultural issues of Muslims. He wrote works in many fields such as Quran sciences, Tafsir, Hadith, Kalam, Fiqh, Fiqh Usul, Sira and Islamic History, Arabic language and literature; He participated in a number of national and international meetings about various intellectual and political problems of the society he lived in and the Islamic world. In this article, Musa Carullah's relationship with the Islamic congresses held between 1926 and 1931 will be discussed. The first of these congresses was the Caliphate Congress, which was proposed by the representatives of Egyptian religious education institutions, especially al-Azhar administrators, as a reaction to this decision, after the Grand National Assembly of Turkey abolished the caliphate with the law numbered 431 dated March 3, 1340 (1924), and convened in Cairo between 13-19 May 1926. (el-Mu'temerü'l-İslâmiyyü'l-Âmm li'l-Khilâfeti). Musa Carullah was invited to this meeting by the Egyptian congress organizing committee, but he could not attend the meeting because he was not granted a visa to enter the country by the Egyptian authorities. Some people claimed that Musa Carullah was an opponent of the Bolshevik government in Russia, and that giving him an entry visa to Egypt would mean Egypt turning against Russia, and that the Egyptian authorities did not grant a visa to Musa Carullah in order to avoid this situation. In this article, we argue that the claim in question does not fully reflect the truth, and that the real reason for not granting a visa to Musa Carullah is not Egypt's fear of Russia; We argued that it should be found in his opposition to the Egyptian administration under the British shadow, the possibility of electing the Egyptian King Fuad (1868-1936) as the "New Islamic Caliph" and the general approach of al-Azhar ulama about the caliphate, and we tried to examine Musa Carullah's views on the Islamic caliphate in general and the Ottoman caliphate in particular, and his evaluations about the approaches of the Al-Azhar ulama and Egyptian officials who organized this meeting to the caliphate. The second congress discussed here is the World Muslim Congress (Mu'temeru'l-âlemi'l-İslami), which met in Mecca between 7 June and 5 July 1926. This congress, which was organized in a way that conflicted in time with the Caliphate Congress held in Egypt, considering the transportation facilities of the period, was a meeting held by Abdulaziz Ibn al-Saud (1880-1953), who declared himself as the King of Hejaz, with the aim of reinforcing his legitimacy in the Islamic world. In this congress, some practical and internal issues related to public order, such as the development of the Hejaz region, especially Mecca and Medina, and the improvement of the pilgrimage organization, were discussed. Even though Musa Carullah was a little late due to visa problems, he attended this congress and spoke several times and expressed his opinions on some issues. The last congress to be examined in the article is the General Islamic Congress (al-Mu'temeru'l-İslâmiyyü'l-Âmm), which was held in Jerusalem between 7-17 December 1931. Musa Carullah attended this congress, organized by the Mufti of Jerusalem Haji Amin al-Husayni (1897-1974), to discuss some political and economic issues concerning the Islamic world, such as improving the feelings of unity and brotherhood among Muslims, defending the Palestinian lands against the Jews, whose numbers were increasing day by day due to external migration, establishing an Islamic university in Jerusalem and repairing the Hejaz railway, as the representative of Chinese Turkestan and Finnish Muslims. In the present article, Musa Carullah Bigiyef's participation in the above-mentioned congresses, his negotiations in these congresses and his evaluations about them will be examined in detail and some mistakes regarding these issues will be corrected.
Görüntüle
Hitit İlahiyat Dergisi, 2022-06, Vol.21 (1), p.33-80
