Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu Hayatı

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Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu is a sheikh who belongs to the Halidiye branch of the Naqshbandi sect. The congregation gathered around him was called the Ismailağa Community, in reference to the İsmailağa Mosque in Fatih Çarşamba, where he served as an imam between Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu was born in in Trabzon-Of, and received a good education from the leading scholars of the period and the region in an intense religious and scientific environment in the Black Sea Region. He was affiliated with Ali Haydar Efendi, who was the last sheikh of the first Khalidi Lodge in Istanbul, whom he met while in the army, and who was also one of the jurists of the Ottoman Empire. After he was appointed as an imam by his sheikh Ali Haydar Efendi to the İsmailağa Mosque, which was renovated in , he regularly took private lessons from Ali Haydar Efendi, and replaced him after Ali Haydar Efendi passed away in Instead of using the dervish lodge, he continued his duty of guidance in the mosque he served. After a difficult process, a large community has formed around him. Since girls and boys should study in the same environment and the religious education given in official schools is not sufficient, he approached official education at a distance and transformed the mosque and its surroundings into a science center where classical Arabic and Qur'anic sciences are taught. Courses called madrasahs, which were opened in separate places for girls and boys, spread to all cities of Turkey, and many scholars were trained in these madrasahs. He had good relations with many Muslim scholars. He has many works mainly on the Qur'an, tafsir, hadith and mysticism, especially an ongoing tafsir book. It differs significantly from other religious communities in that its followers pay attention to the fact that men and women sit in different places in social environments, that male disciples grow their beards, wear turbans on their heads and wear robes, and female disciples wear chadors for the purpose of veiling. He and his followers discussed the issues related to fiqh rather than the issues related to mysticism in their conversations. In his Sufi views, he adheres strictly to the Naqshi tradition before him.