The death of a famous Turkish Islamic thinker

Turkish media announced the death of Omar Okcho, known as “Hakimoglu Ismail”. The deceased is described as one of the most prominent contemporary Islamic thinkers and the most generous in Turkey.

Zaman newspaper quoted his son, Osman Okcho, as saying that Hakim Oglu Ismail died at the age of ninety, and said in this regard: “My father, Hakim Oglu Ismail, has moved to the afterlife. I wait for your prayers for him.”

It was also reported that the “Timaş” group, which was founded by the deceased and is considered a pioneer in the field of publishing, with a post about his death, carried the following text: “We are deeply saddened by the loss of our respected Sheikh Omar Okcho, founder of our publishing house, known as Hakimoglu Ismail.”

Hakimoglu Ismail was born in the eastern city of Erzincan in 1932, graduated from the Armored Forces School in 1952, and later began his career as an officer, and then retired from the Turkish Armed Forces in 1952.

The biography of the deceased says that he left “more than 40 books and works, but he became famous through the novel (Minelli Abdullah), which was banned for a period, and then issued in 1967, which exceeded 80 publications until 2009, and the events of this book were transferred to the cinema in the late eighties and enjoyed It was very popular with young Muslims and conservatives.

The Turkish opposition newspaper “Zaman” reported that the leader of the Service Movement, Fethullah Gulen, mourned the thinker Hakim Oglu Ismail, and said in a message in particular that “the deceased was like pure water in his faith, Islam, surrender to God Almighty and reliance on Him, and all of this was built on the basis of deep thinking.”