Raşit Küçük was a Turkish academic with a focus on hadith scholarship and the life history of Muhammad. Born in Akseki District, he entered an İmam Hatip school in Antalya after his primary studies. He continued to focus on religious studies through university, defending a dissertation on the concept of love in the Qur'an and Sunnah in 1983. Küçük taught at Marmara University in Istanbul, becoming a full professor in 2003 and serving as the dean of the Faculty of Theology from 2007 through 2011. Küçük was appointed to the high council of Presidency of Religious Affairs in 2014, serving as that council's chairman until 2016. For the last years of his life, Küçük served as the chairman of the Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation.
