Salih Mirzabeyoğlu

Salih Mirzabeyoĝlu
Born	Salih İzzet Erdiş (1950-05-09)May 9, 1950 Erzincan, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Occupation(s)	Author, currently serving life in prison
Known for	İBDA Ideology, Books

Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, born in Erzincan in May 9, 1950, finished high school training in Eskişehir. In 1965 he was introduced with Necip Fazil Kısakürek, Üstad (the Master) (1904–1983), who had come to the city of Eskişehir to give a lecture. After a while he attended to the Law School of the University of Istanbul. Salih Mirzabeyoğlu published revolutionary periodicals, respectively, Gölge (Shadow) in 1975 and the Akıncı Güç (The Raider Power) in 1979. In 1979 he also wrote and published his book The Necessity of the Complete Idea. In 1980 he began to study with Kısakürek and published the periodical Rapor (the Report) with him. Mirzabeyoğlu, who has written many books in a wide spectrum from law to economics, from quantum physics to art, began to propagate his thoughts under the name of IBDA in 1984 after the death of Kısakürek. Since then, the author started very intensive activities of publication and conference, and was arrested and imprisoned in 1991 and also in 1993. He has 53 books published so far. In 1998 he was arrested again due to the accusation of “trying to demolish the constitutional order”, and is still in Jail. Of 53 works, he wrote 13 pieces in prison under bad circumstances.

Biography

Salih Mirzabeyoğlu was born in Erzincan in 1950, but is originally from Bitlis. His family descends from the Islamic prophet Muhammed and were given special status by the Kurdish tribes as leaders of these tribes. His great-grandfather Musa, his great-grandfather's brother Nuh and his grandfather İzzet Bey were among the first opponents of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. İzzet Bey killed 125 soldiers of Mustafa Kemal in the mountains of kosor in eastern Turkey, and during this struggle was killed. The most famous figure of Kurdish Literature, Cigerxwîn, even wrote about the heroic life of Salih Mirzabeyoğlu's grandmother, Gulnaz Hanım.

Salih Mizabeyoğlu was the opinion leader of the very well-known "Raiders (Akıncılar) Movement" which got involved in a nationwide resistance which had an Islamic character and was against the regime in Turkey from 1975 until the military coup of 1980. Mizabeyoğlu became extremely popular after he started publishing the monthly revolutionary periodical "Gölge (Shadow)" in 1975 and the concept "Raider (Akıncı)" was mentioned as the common name for members of the Islamic resistance for the first time by Mirzabeyoğlu in the publication. Mirzabeyoğlu's works, and the fact that a number of his comrades were martyred during their struggle, inspired an unprecedented "revolutionary Islam" all over Turkey, with almost all members of the Islamic resistance appearing after that time calling themselves "Raiders (Akıncılar)".

As of 1986, many legal and illegal fronts emerged around the İBDA ideology. Nowadays, according to the police records, there are more than 100 fronts of İBDA which have organized many actions independently from one another and from Mirzabeyoğlu. The organization model of İBDA-Fronts has no relation with the other nationalist or socialist organization models. According to the police reports, there are a number of armed groups and about 3,000 militants in Turkey, both in Turkish and in the Kurdish territories. The revolutionary concept of İBDA-Fronts depends on Popular Revolts strategy.

The system is apparently the key word for the proposal that only İBDA provides in the Islamic world. İBDA does not deal with only action but it also provides its alternative system to replace the which is to be eliminated. What İBDA implicitly proposes to the world is an unprecedented solution, as mentioned bofore. Its comprehensive proposal contains all the main ideas and procedures of administrative, Judicial, economic, cultural, educational and other subsystems in accordance with the supersystem which is available. Contrary to other types of wishful thinking, this magnificent system proposal is on hand in Mirzabeyoğlu's complete works. That is why he was assaulted brutally and was wanted dead several times by using sophisticated means: "electromagnetic weapons, radiation emitters, directed-sound headphones and hallucinogenic agents put in meals," actions which are still being carried out. That is why, where Salih Mirzabeyoğlu is concerned, Western imperialism and Turkish militarism always had assassination plots on process and in store. He was arrested in 1998 and has been in prison since then, having been accused of destroying and replacing the secular regime with an Islamic one.

Salih Mirzabeyoğlu is currently in a high security prison of Bolu.

Mirzabeyoğlu and IBDA

The thought system of IBDA, which is based on Nakshbendism stemmed from Sufism, is a movement of idea and action. However, Mirzabeyoğlu refers in his system mainly to BD (Büyük Doğu-Great East). Describing IBDA as functioning body of the BD, he tells that IBDA is the continuation of BD and that IBDA puts thoughts in BD into practice. In this regard, there is a close relationship between BD and IBDA, and they are complementary of each other.

The thought of BD formed by Kısakürek, an important name also in Turkish literature, suggests a new Islamic ideology firstly to the Moslem World, then to the entire world. According to Mirzabeyoğlu, Kısakürek is not only a poet, but also an intellectual and a man of action who has provided a significant social system to the world. With a more accurate expression, each action of Kısakürek, even his literary works including his lectures and poems, serves the idea of BD. Mirzabeyoğlu joined to BD in 1965 when he was introduced with Necip Fazıl the Master and maintained his connection with him. This ideological reciprocity and personal relationship between them resembles, to Mirzabeyoğlu, the relationship between Socrates and Plato. Mirzabeyoğlu met many times with the Master till his death, and meanwhile he wrote some articles in the periodical Rapor.

The relation between Mirzabeyoğlu and the Master, who said for the book called Head to head with Necip Fazıl “the most wonderful book written about me,” was different than the relationships of other young writers with him. While Kısakürek, a distinguished name in Turkish intellectual life, is mostly seen as a very important poet and man of letters, Mirzabeyoğlu emphasizes his aspect of man of action and idea.

From novels to pieces, from poems to philosophical books, Kısakürek expresses the net of the idea of BD. BD offers to Muslim world an Islamic system of which center is Turkey. Kısakürek deals with the thought net of BD in his all works. BD offers an Islamic system to be established firstly in Turkey, then in the entire Muslim world. Kısakürek describes this system in detail in his work Knit of Ideology of BD (1968). The lack of system, ideology and thought in the Moslem world has been resolved by BD and its continuation IBDA, and only Kısakürek and Mirzabeyoğlu asserted a coherent and holistic Islamic ideology among Muslim intellectuals. “System” is a key word for IBDA, the unique movement in Islamic world which has put forward a proposal for social and economical life. IBDA not only starts action against oppression in Muslim countries, but also gives the alternative of that oppressive system it wants to change. This solution includes all fields from law to economics, from culture to education, shortly all fields of lower systems connected to the upper system. Contrary to other visionary thoughts, the system offered by Mirzabeyoğlu is available in his all books. A substantial expression of this system is in the book in your hands

His Works

The books of Mirzabeyoğlu cover various fields such as Islamic wisdom, Western philosophy, politics, economics, law, arts, literature, history, physics of quantum and mathematics, etc. The author calls himself a water bird flying between the wisdom of Islam and the western philosophy.

To Mirzabeyoğlu, IBDA pursues of an ideology which opens its wings between Sufism and western philosophy, and calls the latter to account before the former. IBDA does not reject fruits of West's idea, but shows that they have roots in Islam. Therefore, in IBDA literature Sufists and wise men like Ibni Arabi, Gazali and İmam Rabbani stay side by side with western intellectuals like Bergson, Kant and Hegel.Since 1975 the books written by Salih Mirzabeyoğlu are below:

The Necessity of the Complete Thought, the Warriors of the Light, Ideology and Revolution, Trying to Live, The Letters, A Leaf from History, Our Cause of Culture, Step by Step, The Swirl, Head to Head with Necip Fazıl, The Biggest Good News, The Understanding Towards Islam, The Secret of the Shooting Star, The Future is of Islam, The Shadows, The Dialectics of IBDA, Language and Understanding, The Roots, The Book of Wisdom, My Fight I-II, Economics and Ethics, The Philosophy of Wisdom, The Wisdom of Poem and Art, The Literature of Law, The Torture, The Diary of Fox (6 volumes), The truth of the individual, The Role and Meaning of the Companions, The State of Başyücelik, The Rain Maker, The Three Lights, Steps, The Book of Money, the Hırka-i Tecrid, Great Sufferers (4 volumes), The Ship, The Telegram, Elif (The Alpha), Furkan, Berzah (The Place of Torment), The Figures, What is Matter, Belief and Thought, Human. The State of Başyücelik Government form suggested by Başyücelik (bashyouje-liq) state is the aristocracy of intellectuals. These intellectuals should be the most distinguished ones of that time. According to IBDA, only the most superior ones deserve, and are responsible, to administrate the country. This order accepts neither autocracy which sees an absolute power in one man nor democracy which regards equals all the people in a society regardless ignorant or educated. Today there is actually no democracy as described in books in the world, but there is a theatre play to hoodwink people under so-called democratic regimes for hiding exploitation carried out for decades. Mirzabeyoğlu explains his project in this book.

As seen in the subtitle of the book, “New World Order,” it criticizes the new world order then suggested by the US. One of the concepts the book discussed is the western democracy which has become the dominant ideology of the world after the fall of the Soviets. In the first tablet (chapter) of the book, “the forms of state,” author deals with state forms according to characteristics of people, types of sovereignty, source of domination. The author discusses the distinction between sovereignty of people and sovereignty of nation here. Additionally he examines types of president.

In the second tablet called world public order, Mirzabeyoğlu considers the issues of public law, European community, and Western democracy in the axis of Islam.

Third tablet expresses the issue it tackles in its title: “Western World and Democracy.” In this section the author deals with the West, the opinions of the West about both itself and the East, and the superiorities and crisis of the West. Mirzabeyoğlu continues to criticize the discussion of the Western democracy deeper in the same section.

In the last tablet of the book Mirzabeyoğlu tackles the State of Başyücelik he offered. Here he makes a comparison between the West and the East, and explains the basic qualifications of that type of state, its intellectual references, and its relations with the subsystems we pointed out above.

At the end of the book there is a collection of hadiths of Muhammad on administration, justice and state.

Conclusion

The state of Başyücelik is an administrational system offered to the world by Mirzabeyoğlu. He puts forward the ideological-intellectual aspects of Islam, which are almost absent today, as well as brings a new solution offer for the deep crisis of liberal democracy the West experiences. IBDA is a movement which removes deficiencies of both concepts through its ideological and intellectual structure. As a matter of fact, the crisis of the world is originated from disconnections of such concepts like them (ethics, economics, philosophy, etc.).

Mirzabeyoğlu brings a new understanding which will make closer not only the West with the East, but also the concepts themselves with each other.

Bibliography

He has written 50 books.

• Bütün Fikrin Gerekliligi (Necessity of Whole Idea)
• Tarihten Bir Yaprak (A Paper from History)
• Necip Fazil'la Basbasa (with Necip Fazil)
• Kültür Davamiz (Our Culture Thesis)
• Siir ve Sanat Hikemiyati (Poetry and Art Philosophy)
• Istikbal Islâmindir (Future Belongs to Islam)
• Anafor (Whirlpool - poems)
• Adimlar (Steps - interviews)
• Büyük Muztaribler 1-2-3 (Great Agitateds - philosophy history)
• Tilki Günlügü 1-2-3-4-5-6 (Fox Diary - spiritual novel)
• Sefine (Ship - philosophy of physics)
• Elif (Aleph - painting)
• Yagmurcu (Rainer)
• Hirka-i Tecrid
• Marifetname
• Yasamayi Deneme (Trying to Live - novel)
• Hakikat-i Ferdiye
• Furkan (different kind of dictionary)
• Telegram
• Müjdelerin Müjdesi (stories)
• Münseat (a different kind of poems)
• IBDA Diyalektigi (Dialect of IBDA)
• Islam'a Muhatap Anlayis (Understanding Towards to Islam)
• Kavgam 1-2 (My Fight)
• Sahabinin Rolu ve Manasi (Role and Meaning of Disciple)
• Hukuk Edebiyati (Literature of the Laws)
• Basyücelik Devleti (State of Basyücelik)
• Aydinlik Savasçilari (Fighters of Light - epic)
• Dil ve Anlayis (Language and Understanding)
• Kökler (Roots)
• Kayan Yildiz Sirri (Mystery of Slipping Star - poem)
• Iktisat ve Ahlâk (Economics and Morality)
• Parakuta (about politics/aesthetics of money)
• Önsöz (Preface)
• Ideolocya ve Ihtilâl (Ideology and Revolution)
• Hikemiyat (Philosophies)
• Iskence (Torture - anectode)
• Gölgeler (Shadows - novel)
• Damlaya Damlaya
• Üç Isik (Three Lights)
• Erkam (Philosophy of mathematics)
• Berzah

See also

• Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front
• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
• Abdulhakim Arvasi