Mizancı Murad

Born in Dagestan — his birth year is given as 1854 in the Turkish lead and Wikidata and as 1853 in the Turkish biography section — he was schooled at Sevastopol, came to Istanbul, taught history at the Mülkiye, and in 1886 launched Mizan. Fleeing to Europe in 1895, he was elected head of the Committee of Union and Progress at Geneva in 1896, then broke with it, accepted the Sultan's amnesty, and after 1908 relaunched Mizan in opposition to the CUP government. ¹²

Implicated in the 31 March incident of 1909, he was sentenced to fortress exile and spent some four years on Rhodes and Lesbos, writing volumes of his Ottoman history, the Tarih-i Ebulfaruk. Pardoned in 1912, he returned to Istanbul and died at his yalı at Anadolu Hisarı on 15 April 1917; the English article's death year of 1912 is supported by no other source and is not followed. ¹²

His affiliation is recorded as unknown. His advocacy of Ottomanism as state ideology and Islamic unity as its cultural ideology, and the English article's description of his stance as pan-Islamist, are political positions argued in print; no source names a madhhab for him personally, and Wikidata gives only the generic value Islam. ¹²³

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