İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca
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İskilipli Mehmed Atıf Hoca is
Is an Islamic scholar. He was born in Tophane,Çorum in Turkey, in 1875. He started his early education in his village. In 1893 he came to Istanbul for Madrasa(is the word for "School" in Arabic) education. In 1902 he started Darü'l-fünunun ilahiyat Fafültesi ( Darü'l-fünunun Divinity School). He finished his faculty in 1903 and started working as Ders-i Amm(Ulema, a person who teaches the Madrasa students) in the Fatih Mosque. He was later arrested and taken to jail for a several times but was freed. During the westernization movement in Turkey, he wrote a book called "Frenk Mukallitliği ve Şapka" (literally: westernization and hat)in 1924. Later he was arrested being accused of violating "Şapka Kanunu" (The Hat Act)which was a law passed in 25 November 1925, it indicated that everyone should wear hat, it also banned the wearing of religious clothes and the fez. Atif Hodja stood on trial in Giresun Liberty Court but found innocent and was released. However he was later arrasted and was sent to Ankara in 26 December 1925. He stood on trial in 26 January 1926 Tuesday, in Ankara. The attorney general demanded 3 years of imprisonment, but the court postponed the trial to the next day due to advocacy. The next day the chief justice of court saw no need to advocate the Hodja and declared his decision. The Hodja was sentenced to death. He died in 4 February 1926. His life was made into a movie in 1993, İskilipli Atıf Hoca / Kelebekler Sonsuza Uçar.