Emrullah (Amr Allāh) Efendi (1275/1858-22 Ramazan (Ramaḍān) 1332/14 August 1914) was a prominent Ottoman educationalist and minister of public instruction. He was born to a merchant, Ali (ʿAlī) Efendi, in 1275/1858, in Lüleburgaz (a town in European Turkey, 138 km/86 mi west-northwest of Istanbul). After graduating from the Mekteb-i Mülkiye (School of Civil Service) in 1298/1881, Emrullah Efendi served as maarif müdürü ( maʿārif müdīr , director of education) in Ioannina (1299/1882), Salonica (1301/1884), Aleppo (1304/1887), and Aydın (1308/1891). In