Tahsin Yazıcı (1922 – 20 November 2002) was a Turkish literary scholar who was active in the latter half of the 20th century, when he produced his critical edition of Aflākī's Manāqib al-ʿārifīn, a hagiography of the Mevlevi Order,[1] and other works focused on Persian mystic literature.

Yazıcı has been described as an "eminent scholar of Persian and Arabic literatures",[2] and his editions and translations of Mevlevi texts have been called "indispensable".

[3] Yazıcı was born in Hoğas, a village near the town of Kiğı in Bingöl province, into a family of Turkish origin appointed to a position of authority by the Ottoman state.

[4] From 1966 until 1987, Yazıcı was also the chief editor of and contributor of more than 150 articles to İslâm Ansiklopedisi, an Encyclopaedia of Islam published by the Religious Foundation of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı).

[4] This work "had the dual purpose of amending Orientalist scholarship and elaborating on the Turkish contribution to Islamic tradition".