Hasan Hüsnü Erdem

Turkish Mufti

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Hasan Hüsnü Erdem

President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs
In office 6 April 1961 – 13 October 1964
President	Cemal Gürsel (acting until 10 October 1961)
Preceded by	Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen
Succeeded by	Mehmet Tevfik Gerçeker

Personal details
Born	8 July 1889 Sadıkler Village, Akseki, Antalya
Died	22 August 1974 (aged 85)

Hasan Hüsnü Erdem (8 July 1889 – 22 August 1974) was a Turkish scholar, teacher, and Mufti who served as the sixth president of the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs from 1961 to 1964.^[1]

Biography

In his early life, Erdem learned Arabic from his father, before completing an education in Fiqh.^[2]^[3] He received a PhD on this topic in 1916 and subsequently taught at many schools and became an Islamic scholar.^[2]^[3] He retired in 1964.^[2]^[3]

Works

He also contributed to more than two hundred biographies in Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam.^[1] His writings include:

Ebedî Risâlet - a translation of Abdul Rahman Azzam's Eternal Message
Riyâzü’s-sâlihîn ve Tercemesi - on Al-Nawawi's The Meadows of the Righteous
İlâhî Hadisler - on translation of hadiths
Berat Gecesi Hakkında Bir Tedkik

References

^ ^a ^b Ertan, Velı (1995). Erdem, Hasan Hüsnü - An article published in 11th volume of Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (in Turkish). Vol. 11. Istanbul: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi. pp. 283–284. ISBN 978-975-389-438-8. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Hasan Hüsnü ERDEM". Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (in Turkish).
^ ^a ^b ^c "Hasan Hüsnü Erdem". www.biyografya.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-01-11.