Halide Edib Adıvar

Halide Edib Adıvar

Halide Edib Adıvar was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader. She was best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw as the disinterest of most women in changing their situation. She also served as a soldier in the Turkish military during the Turkish War of Independence.

Her father was a secretary of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. She and her family were affiliated with the Dönmeh, a group that publicly practiced Islam but secretly practiced a form of Judaism called Sabbateanism. Edip was educated at home by private tutors from whom she learned European and Ottoman literature, religion, philosophy, sociology, piano, English, French, and Arabic. She learned Greek from her neighbors

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