Paul Mulla
Paul Mulla (1882-1959) (formerly Mollazade Mehmed Ali) was a Turkish Cretan Catholic prelate.
Biography[]
After having been a fervent Muslim in his youth, had converted to the Catholic Church and was baptised in 1905, to the great sorrow of his father . He died in 1959.
Presbytariate[]
He was ordained priest in 1913. He was a disciple, and then the godson, of Maurice Blondel. He was the priest entrusted by the Pope Pius XI with the undertaking of Islamic studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute.[1] He wrote a book on his spiritual journey. He was promoted to Monsignore.
References[]
- ^ Ali Mehmet Mulla Zade: A Turk in Rome (1924-1959), Blogspot, 11 June 2004
Sources[]
- For a dialogue between Christians and Muslims - Fr. Julius Basetti-Sani (1967)
- Quid - Religions - Catholicism - Histoire (in French)
- A 1948 interview with Paul Mulla by Sedat Simavi (in Turkish)
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