Süleymaniye’den İstanbul’a Bir Kürt Aydını Emin Feyzi Bey’in Hatıraları (1862-1929)

Memoirs of a Kurdish Intellectual Emin Feyzi Bey from Suleymaniye to Istanbul (1862-1929)

Süleymaniyeli Mehmet Emin Feyzi Bey has a wavy life spanning from the last period of the Ottoman Empire to the Republic. He served as a soldier, engineer, educator and librarian in different parts of the empire and witnessed many events: Tyranny, World War II. Constitutional Monarchy, bandit pursuits, martial law courts, favoritism in the army and bureaucracy, purges, the World War, the Armenian problem, the Kurdistan Teali Society, the armistice, the War of Independence and finally the Republic.
In this book, you will read from his own pen the life, personal suffering and crises of his time of an old-time master who left behind many works, from military training to mathematics, from Ottoman poems to the first Kurdish poetry anthology, to his rejection of materialism, but has sunk into oblivion.
İbnülemin Mahmut Kemal writes the ending, which was not possible for him to write: “Mumâileyh lived in an inn in Üsküdar in his last days. He suffered paralysis and was admitted to Haydarpaşa Hospital. He was subsequently transferred to Bursa, Gümüşsuyu, Guraba-yı Müslümîn Hospitals, then to İlel-i Aklıyye Hospital in Bakırköyü, and finally to Dârü'l-Âceze. He passed away on 25 Zilkide 1347 (6 May 1929) in Dârü'l-Âceze. He was buried near the lodge at the bottom of Ok Square in Kasımpaşa. ”