Ahmet Şâhin (writer)


Ahmet Şâhin is a Turkish author.

Life

Şâhin came to Istanbul in 1952 from Yozgat. As a protégé of Gönenli Mehmed Efendi, he studied tefsir, hadis, kelâm and fıkıh under Hüsrev Efendi, Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen, Bekir Hâkı and Dersâm Selahaddin. In 1960, Şâhin was appointed to Süleymaniye Mosque. Şâhin’s essays were first published in the newspaper Hüradam.