Sîdîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî
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Biography
Sîdîyîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî (known in Romanian as Sadîc Ibraim) (1909–1959) was a Crimean Tatar spiritual leader, imam, Mufti of the Muslim community of Romania, and activist for ethnic Tatar causes.
Biography
Sîdîyîk was born in 1909 to Ibrahim Hağî Mîrzî (1881-1960) and Zebide (1888-1968) in Kíşke Tatlîğak, known today as Dulceşti, a village situated in the Tatar countryside west of Mangalia.
He served as Mufti of Constanta County between 1943 and 1945. He was preceded by Kurt-Amet Mustafa and succeeded by Reşit Seit-Veli.
In 1945 he was arrested and investigated facing charges of traveling to Crimea sent by the Gestapo to determine the separation of Crimea from the Soviet Union, creating in Romania nests of Crimean Tatars aimed at defaming in the highest degree the Soviet state and its army, helping the Germans to recruit Crimean Tatars charged of being Soviet patriots who were taken to Germany and whose existence is unknown.
Sîdîyîk died in 1959 in Pitesti Prison. He was buried in Constanta Muslim Central Cemetery at: 44.173435, 28.621952.
Citations
Sources
- Ion, Ioanid (2013). Inchisoarea noastra cea de toate zilele, Vol.3 (in Romanian). 3. Constanta: Humanitas. p. 492. ISBN 978-973-50-4206-6.
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