Abdurrahman Şeref - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Arikan, Zeki
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Brill
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Abdurrahman Şeref (ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Şeref, 1269-1343/1853-1925) was born in Istanbul, the son of Hasan (Ḥasan) Efendi, an accounting officer at Tophane. He graduated from the lycée of Galatasaray in 1290/1873 and worked as the director of the Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane (Imperial School of Civil Service) from 1295-1311/1878-1894. He later served as director of Galatasaray Lycée (1311-1326/1894-1908), and during the Second Constitutional period, he became Maarif Nazırı (minister of education) and president of the Meclis-i Ayan (Chamber