Önal, Ramazan

Gazzīzāde Abdullatīf Efendi lived in Bursa during late 18th and early 19th century. Theperiod was an era of intense reforms in Ottoman history. Gazzīzāde made his best inorder to ensure the unity and survival of the state on the one hand and tried to makeup for the corruption in society due to groundless admiration in Europe on the other.In his works, particularly in his exegesis of al-Fātihah, Gazzīzāde extensively treatspolitical, social and moral problems of his day and puts forth a proper Sūfī life as theonly way to cure the problems through education of mentors. Sūfism constitutes themain theme of the work. Nonetheless, he also comprehensively deals with Kalam soas to defend the righteousness of the faith among Ahl al-Sunnah and to provide aresponse against void and superstitious parties