The Loss of Knowledge: Allâme İsmâil Sâib Sencer (Erzurum, January 31, 1873 – İstanbul, March 22, 1940)
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İsmâil Sâib Sencer, Beyazıt Public Library, Kashfu’z-zunûnAbstract
Advanced societies take it seriously to introduce their pioneers of science and art to their current and future generations. By doing that, they try to encourage the future generations and to fill in the places of those pioneers after they pass away. One of the Turkish pioneers of that sort, who lived in the last era of the Ottoman Empire and the first era of the Turkish Republic was İsmâil Sâib Sencer, who was one of the Beyazıt Mosque’s scholars (dersiâmm) and one of the professors at Dârulfunûn (Ottoman University), as well as an administrator of the Beyazıt Public Library. He was called as “a library with two feet” due to his knowledge concerning Arabic language and literature, Islamic sciences and especially because of his knowledge in bibliography. Although Kevserî was six years younger than Sencer, they were close friends. In this article, Kevserî, talks about İsmail Sâib Sencer in a sincere way giving rise to two historical anecdotes that are related to him.
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2018-12-26
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The Loss of Knowledge: Allâme İsmâil Sâib Sencer (Erzurum, January 31, 1873 – İstanbul, March 22, 1940). (2018). FSM Scholarly Studies Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12, 495-506. https://dergi.fsm.edu.tr/index.php/ia/article/view/899
