Sîdîyîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî
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Sîdîyîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî (known in
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as Sadîc Ibraim) (1909 – 1959) was a Crimean Tatar spiritual leader,
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,
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of the
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community of
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, and activist for ethnic Tatar causes.


Biography

Sîdîyîk was born in 1909, to Ibrahim Hağî Mîrzî (1881-1960) and Zebide (1888-1968) in Kíşke Tatlîğak, known today as Dulcești, a village situated in the
Tatar Tatar may refer to: Peoples * Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" * Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia * Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ...
countryside west of
Mangalia Mangalia (, ), ancient Callatis (; other historical names: Pangalia, Panglicara, Tomisovara), is a city and a port on the coast of the Black Sea in the south-east of Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. The municipality of Mangalia als ...
. He served as
Mufti A mufti (; , ) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion ('' fatwa'') on a point of Islamic law (''sharia''). The act of issuing fatwas is called ''iftāʾ''. Muftis and their ''fatāwa'' have played an important role thro ...
of
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between 1943 and 1945. He was preceded by Kurt-Amet Mustafa and succeeded by Reşit Seit-Veli. In 1945, he was arrested and investigated facing charges of traveling to
Crimea Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ...
sent by the
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to foster the separation of Crimea from the
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, creating in Romania nests of Crimean Tatars aimed at defaming in the highest degree the Soviet state and its army, helping the Germans to recruit Crimean Tatars charged of being Soviet patriots who were taken to Germany and whose existence is unknown. Sîdîyîk died in 1959, aged 49 or 50, in
Pitești Prison Pitești Prison () was a penal facility in Pitești, Romania, best remembered for the reeducation experiment (also known as ''Experimentul Pitești'' – the "Pitești Experiment" or ''Fenomenul Pitești'' – the "Pitești Phenomenon") which wa ...
. He was buried at the Muslim Central Cemetery, in Constanța.


See also

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Islam in Romania Islam in Romania is followed by only 0.4 percent of the population, but has 700 years of tradition in Northern Dobruja, a region on the Black Sea coast which was part of the Ottoman Empire for almost five centuries (ca. 1420-1878). In present-da ...
*
Crimean Tatars Crimean Tatars (), or simply Crimeans (), are an Eastern European Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group and nation indigenous to Crimea. Their ethnogenesis lasted thousands of years in Crimea and the northern regions along the coast of the Blac ...
* List of Crimean Tatars


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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ibrahim H. Mirzi, Sidiyik 1909 births 1959 deaths Muftis of Romania Crimean Tatar muftis Crimean Tatar activists Romanian Muslims Romanian people of Crimean Tatar descent People from Constanța People from Constanța County Inmates of Pitești prison