ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Salih Mirzabeyoglu was born in Erzincan in 1950, but is originally from Bitlis. His family descends from the Prophet (pbuh,) and were given special status by the Kurdish tribes as leaders of these tribes. His mother is Turkish.


Salih Mirzabeyoglu first met Necip Fazil, his master and another prominent Turkish thinker and writer who founded the Great East as a system of thought, in Eskisehir when he was fifteen years old. He studied Law in the University of Istanbul, and in 1975 began to publish his works. In some of the periodicals he published between 1979 and 1980 he wrote his political-ideological perspectives. After the death of Necip Fazil, he founded IBDA in 1984 and until now, has written over 50 works. IBDA is a school of thought and action which is also based on "Tasawwuf." It is based on the wisdom of a Sufi school (tariqat) of Naqshbandiyyah. Salih Mirzabeyoglu was also the opinion leader of the very well-known "Raiders (Akincilar) Movement" which got involved in a nationwide resistance which had an Islamic character and was against the regime in Turkey from 1975 until the military coup of 1980. Mirzabeyoglu became extremely popular after he started publishing the monthly revolutionary periodical "Golge" (Shadow) in 1975 and the concept "Raider" (Akinci) was mentioned as the common name for members of the Islamic resistance for the first time by Mirzabeyoglu in this publication. Mirzabeyoglu's works, and the fact that a number of his comrades were martyred during their struggle, inspired an unprecedented "revolutionary Islam" all over Turkey, with almost all members of the Islamic resistance appearing after that time calling themselves "Raiders" (Akincilar). The "system" is apparently the key word for the proposal that only IBDA provides in the Islamic world. IBDA does not deal with only action but it also provides its alternative system to replace the one which is to be eliminated. What IBDA implicitly proposes to the world is an unprecedented solution. Its comprehensive proposal contains all the main ideas and procedures of administrative, executive, judicial, economic, cultural, educational and other subsystems in accordance with the supersystem which is available. Contrary to other types of wishful thinking, this magnificent system proposal is on hand in Mirzabeyoglu's complete works. That is why he was assaulted brutally and was wanted dead several times by using sophisticated means: "electromagnetic weapons, radiation emitters, directed-sound headphones and hallucinogenic agents put in meals," actions which are still being carried out. That is why, where Salih Mirzabeyoglu is concerned, Western imperialism and Turkish militarism always had assassination plots on process and in store. He was arrested in 1998 and has been in prison since then, having been accused of destroying and replacing the secular regime with an Islamic one. Salih Mirzabeyoglu is currently in a high security prison of Bolu.


His works are on themes of Islamic wisdom, Western philosophy, linguistics, politics, economics, law, fine arts, literature, history, quantum physics, mathematics, and so on. He defines himself as a "water bird" which flies between Western Thought and Islamic Wisdom. When he speaks of his relationship with Necip Fazil, he says that it is like that of Plato and Socrates. His main target is to found the State of "Grandsublime". The main goal of IBDA is to establish an Islamic state in the world starting with Turkey's territories, and then by targeting the unity of all other Islamic states, hopefully joining them in a federation-like system; more independent in borders, more dependent out of borders in Union. What it proposes is a distinguished type of regime which is exclusive to IBDA: Aristocracy of Literati, in other words, Aristocracy of Intellectuals who are the most prominent figures of their time. Only the best of society deserve to rule a country, IBDA says. Not like an autocracy, in which all the power is in one person's hands; not like democracy, where a scholar's vote is equivalent to that of an ordinary man. He depicts his proposal in his masterpiece, "Basyucelik Devleti - The State of Grandsublime."