Affiliation

Rhetorician; 'Belâgat' in TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (1992)

Biography

Born in Ergani near Diyarbakır, he graduated from the Higher Islamic Institute in Konya (1966) and took his doctorate at the Faculty of Theology of Uludağ University (1984). He taught Arabic language and literature at Ondokuz Mayıs, Uludağ and Dicle universities until he retired in 2008. For the Turkish İslâm Ansiklopedisi he wrote sixty-eight entries on rhetoric, grammar, lexicography and literature, among them Belâgat (Rhetoric, 1992), Delâilü'l-İ‘câz, Esrârü'l-Belâga, Lisânü'l-Arab and Sarf (Morphology).