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Septar Mehmet Yakub
Septar Mehmet Iacub
Born1904
Azaplar/(now Tătaru), Constanta, Kingdom of Romania
Died1991 (aged 86–87)
Constanta, Constanta County, Romania
Resting placeConstanta Muslim Central Cemetery
44°10′23″N 28°37′20″E / 44.173046°N 28.622309°E / 44.173046; 28.622309
NationalityCrimean Tatar
Occupation(s)lawyer, Mufti of Romania
Years active1947-1990 (Mufti)
Known forHe was a promoter of harmony and peace
PredecessorMitat Rifat
SuccessorAblakim Ibrahim
SpouseZeyneb (1903-1972)
ChildrenSaadet (daughter)

Septar Mehmet Yakub (known in Romanian as Septar Mehmet Iacub) (1904-1991) was a Crimean Tatar lawyer, thinker, spiritual leader of Tatars and Turks in Dobruja, Mufti of the Muslim community in Romania. He was a promoter of harmony and peace.[1]

Biography

Yakub was born in 1904 in Azaplar, situated in the Tatar countryside west of Mangalia, a village known today by its official name Tătaru. He studied law at the University of Bucharest and he served in Constanta Bar Association. He backed the emigration to Turkey.[2]

He served as Mufti through the entire Communist era in his country, between 31 December 1947[3] and 1990, being preceded by Mitat Rifat and succeeded by Ablakim Ibrahim.[4] As head of the Muslim Cult, he was placed by Securitate under secret surveillance in operation “The Sultan” under allegations of insulting USSR and attempting to establish in 1950 a Muslim World Peace Organization.[2]

During Nicolae Ceaușescu's years in office he represented the community in the Great National Assembly, now Parliament of Romania. He was friend with Justinian[3] and Teoctist,[5] Patriarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and with Dr. Moses Rosen, Chief Rabbi of Romanian Jewry.

He had a good acquaintance with the Romanian culture and became one of Romania's important speakers on the international scene,[6] a non official "ambassador" during his visits in Arab and Muslim countries. [7] He thought that “Israel and the Arabs must come together and talk peace directly.”[1]

In 1990, when the editors of Renkler Journal in Bucharest led by historian Tahsin Gemil created the Tatar movement based on ideas of cultural and linguistic uniformity, Mehmet Yakub opposed this project creating a movement with cultural diversity conservation views activating under the motto Tek niyet, mútenevviyet ("Unity in diversity").[8]

Yakub died in 1991, in Constanta. His body is near his wife, Zeyneb, in Constanta Muslim Central Cemetery at: 44.173046, 28.622309.

Citations

  1. ^ a b c JTA 1968.
  2. ^ a b adevarul.ro 2015.
  3. ^ a b Gabor, 2006 & p:86.
  4. ^ blogspot.ro.
  5. ^ Lumina 2013.
  6. ^ Gabor, 2006 & p:89.
  7. ^ Bainbridge, 1993 & p:204.
  8. ^ PoetryPacific 2015.

Sources

  • JTA (2 July 1968). "Rumanian Moslem Leader Greets Chief Rabbi Nissim at Rosen Anniversary Function". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  • Bainbridge, Margaret(editor) (1993). The Turkic peoples of the world. Kegan Paul International, London and New York. ISBN 9780710304094. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  • Leuştean, Lucian N. (2009). Orthodoxy and the Cold War: Religion and Political Power in Romania, 1947-65. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-230-21801-7.
  • Eminov, Ali (2000). "Turks in Bulgaria and Balkans". Nationalities Papers. 28 (1). {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  • Gabor, Adrian; Mureşan, Radu Petre (2006). Biserica Ortodoxă în Uniunea Europeană, Contribuţii necesare la securitatea şi stabilitatea europeană (in Romanian). Universitatea din Bucureşti, Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă „Patriarhul Justinian”, Editura Universităţii din Bucuresti. pp. 86, 89.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Yuan, Changming (2015). "5 Poems by Taner Murat". Poetry Pacific. 4.1 (Spring 2015). Poetry Pacific. Retrieved 5 May 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  • Florescu, Ion (1975). Prezenţe musulmane în România/Muslims in Romania. Past and Present. With a Preface by Iacub Mehmet, Mufti of the Muslim Cult in the Socialist Republic of Romania (in Romanian). Meridiane, Bucureşti.
  • blogspot.ro. "Muftiul buclucas". murat-iusuf.blogspot.ro (in Romanian). blogspot.ro. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  • Ionescu, Sinziana (14 February 2015). "Fascinanta istorie a turcilor şi tătarilor din România: de la stăpânii Dobrogei otomane la supuşii unei ţări ortodoxe" (in Romanian). adevarul.ro. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

See also

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