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Dedicated to the life and memory of Mehmet Ali Munir Sr. 

When he reached the Ottoman Istanbul he was already an orphan. His father Kazim and mother Atiye was dead by the time he was four years old.

He was recorded in the population registry during the Ottoman Census of Rumi 1329 (1911) at Beyazit. 

Possibly born in 1905 near Monastir. 

His recorded date as March 16, 1913 is suspect. 

He married to Fatma Piraye b.April 15, 1915 (father Muzaffer, mother Refika).

 The death of is brother Mehmet Enver was dated 30 October, 1930. 

 Mehmet Ali Munir Sr. died August 14, 1964. [1]
 

M.A.Munir Jr. 

[1] His funeral services was at Koca Mustafa Pasha (Sumbulefendi) Mosque(*)and he was buries at Topkapi Surdisi Cemetery. Later urban roadwork activity caused his burial place to be misplaced and the location is lost. His wife was buried at Kucukyali Mezarlig, maltepe on the Asiatic side. 

 (*) The Khalwati tariqat was widespread in most of the Balkans. Their tekkes were found in certain regions of Bosnia and Serbia, but their real concentration lay in Albania and Macedonia. The young M.Ali was said to attend some meetings of this order at this tekke and willed his funeral ceremony to take place there.
 The tomb of Sümbül Sinan Efendi is next to the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Istanbul. The site of his tomb was once his Tekke and is now a mosque. The Tekke itself was once a convent that was abandoned after the conquest of Constantinople and handed over to the Khalwatis (Halveti) by the Sultan to use as a Tekke. Almost all of the sheikhs who sat at the post of grand sheikh of this order are buried at the Tekke, including another noted Sheikh of this order, Merkez Efendi (d.1552) in Yenikapı.

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