months leave of absence for treatment and a change of air as the report requires.

13 Eylül 1337 (13 September 1921)

Said

Member of the Darü'l-Hikmeti'l-İslamiye

Document Concerning the Curriculum Vitae of Officials, Clerks, and Employees of the Ottoman State

Price ten kuruş

(1) My name is Said, I am known as Bediuzzaman, my father's name was Mirza. I am not connected to any well-known family. I belong to the Shafi'i school of law. I am a subject of the Ottoman State.

(2) My date of birth was 1293 (1877). My place of birth was the village of Nurs in the district of İsparit, attached to the district of Hizan in the province of Bitlis.

(3) I made my preliminary studies under my brother for about two years in the above-mentioned sub-district of İsparit. Later I completed the customary course of study in the study-circle of Shaykh Muhammad Celali in the town of [Doğu] Bayezit in the province of Erzurum. Later on I started to study in Van. For about fifteen years I was occupied with studying various sciences. I took part in the recent War on its declaration as a volunteer and regimental commander. I was taken prisoner by the Russians at Bitlis. I escaped from captivity and returned to Istanbul. I have been a member of the Darü'l-Hikmeti'l-İslamiye since it was first founded. I lost the diploma I received from the above-mentioned Muhammad Celali Efendi while I was a prisoner-of-war. I am the author of seventeen works. Firstly, in Arabic, are the Qur'anic commentary Isharat al-I'jaz, the treatises on logic called Ta'liqat and Kızıl Ijaz, and al-Khutbat al-Shamiyya. And I have such written works in Turkish as Nokta, Şuaat, Sünûhat, Münâzarat, Muhâkemat, Tulu'at, Lemaat, Rumûz, İşârât, Hutuvat-i Sitte, İki [Mekteb-i] Musibetin Şehadetnamesi and Hakikat Çekirdekleri. Most of my works are written as admonishments for the guidance of Muslims and to awaken the heedless. Just as I speak Turkish and Kurdish, so I also read and write Arabic and Persian. No copies remain of Rumûz, Hutuvat-i Sitte, İki [Mekteb-i] Musibetin Şehadetnamesi, al-Khutbat al-Shamiyya, Münâzarat, Muhâkemat, and Ta'liqat. I have no certificate or diploma in science or other subjects.

(4) On the declaration of the Great War, I joined the Army for the honour of it and as a volunteer, first as a regimental müfti, and secondly as a regimental commander. While performing this duty, I was taken prisoner by the Russians at Bitlis. All these duties were undertaken as a volunteer. Only, on my return to Istanbul from captivity, as a gratuity, the Ministry of War gave me fifty liras a month for three months making a total of one hun-