Hasan Hüsnü Erdem (8 July 1889 – 22 August 1974) was a Turkish scholar, teacher, and Mufti who served as the sixth president of the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs from 1961 to 1964.
[1] In his early life, Erdem learned Arabic from his father, before completing an education in Fiqh.
[2][3] He received a PhD on this topic in 1916 and subsequently taught at many schools and became an Islamic scholar.
[2][3] He also contributed to more than two hundred biographies in Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam.
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