Abdulhakim Arvasi or Sayyid Abdelhaqim-i Arvasi (1865–1943) was a Sunni Islamic scholar.

Life

Arvasi lived in the times of the late Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 and the early Republic of Turkey. He was one of the most profound Islamic scholars of his time and a mujtahid. Arvasi was a descendant of Prophet Muhammad

Muhammad

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 and hence he had the title Sayyed (Seyyid in Turkish) before his name. He is the 35th of the Silsilei aliyye. He was born in Van

Van, Turkey

Van is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of the Kurdish-majority Van Province, and is located on the eastern shore of Lake Van. The city's official population in 2010 was 367,419, but many estimates put this as much higher with a 1996 estimate stating 500,000 and former Mayor Burhan...

, Turkey. He received religious education from famous scholar and walî Seyyid Fehim-i Arvasi. He was deeply learned in many worldly and religious sciences such as: Natural sciences, hadith

Hadith

The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....

, tafsir

Tafsir

Tafseer is the Arabic word for exegesis or commentary, usually of the Qur'an. Ta'wīl is a subset of tafsir and refers to esoteric or mystical interpretation. An author of tafsir is a mufassir .- Etymology :...

, tasawwuf. Arvasi taught in Van for 30 years after which he moved to Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 as Russian Army had invaded the eastern part of the country. Arvasi taught in various madrasas and mosques of Istanbul for many years. One of his most important students was Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

Huseyin Hilmi Isik

Huseyin Hilmi Isik was a Turkish, Sunni Islamic Scholar.Işık was born in Eyyub Sultan, Istanbul. He was educated at Halicioglu Military High School, and went on to become the first engineer of chemistry in Turkey. Işık received religious education from profound mujtahid Abdulhakim Arvasi...

. Arvasi died in Ankara in 1943 after decades of teaching of Islam. He is buried in Baglum Cemetery, Ankara.

Works

• Er-Riyâd-üt-Tasavufiyye
• Râbita-i Şerîfe
• Keşkül
• Sefer-i Âhiret
• Eshâb-i Kirâm
• Ecdâd-i Peygamberî

Quotes

• "Word of our superiors is the superior word."

• "Whatever thought other than Haqq
  Haqq
  Haqq is the Arabic word for truth. In Islamic context, it is also interpreted as right and reality. Al-Haqq, the truth, is one of the names of God in the Qur'an. It is often used to refer to God as the Ultimate Reality in Sufism....
  
  and the way of Haqq is of separation and perdition."
• "The Britishers are the greatest enemy of Islam".