Tahsin Yazıcı

Tahsin Yazıcı (1922 – 20 November 2002) was a Turkish literary scholar who was active in the latter half of the 20th century, when he produced his critical edition of Aflākī's Manāqib al-ʿārifīn, a hagiography of the Mevlevi Order, and other works focused on Persian mystic literature. He was also chief editor of the Turkish İslâm Ansiklopedisi for more than two decades.

Yazıcı has been described as an "eminent scholar of Persian and Arabic literatures",

Early life and studies

Yazıcı was born in Hoğas, a village near the town of Kiğı in Bingöl province, into a family of Turkish origin appointed to a position of authority by the Ottoman state.

He matriculated in 1940 at the University of Istanbul and graduated in Arabic and Persian language and literature in 1945, before being hired as a research assistant the following year by the Department of Classic Oriental Languages in the Faculty of Language. He served as the consulting editor on Perso-Turkish history and literature for the Encyclopaedia Iranica.