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Baḥru’l-ḥaḳā’iḳ (Meḥmed Ḫaṭīboġlı c. 777/1375- after 838/1435)

Author

Meḥmed Ḫaṭīboġlı c. 777/1375- after 838/1435

محمد خطيب اوﻏﻠﻲ

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Muḥammad Ibn al-Khaṭīb

Hatiboğlu Muhammed

محمد بن الخطيب

Hatiboğlu, 1387- (authorised)

Hatiboğlu, b. 1387 (variant)

İbn-i Hatib, 1387- (variant)

Biographical notes

Born around 777 AH [1375- CE], probably in Honas castle in the Germiyān Beylik ( (Hatiboğlu, . Bahrü’l-Hakâyik. Edited by Türk, Vahit. Ankara: TDK, 2009., pp. Hatiboğlu, Bahrü’l-Hakâyik, ed. Vahit Türk (Ankara, TDK, 2009), p.9)). Virtually nothing is known of his life except the few allusions he makes in his own works. He died after 838 AH [1435- CE].

Author

Ḥacı Bektāş (d. possibly 669/1270-71)

ﺣﺎﺟﻲ ﺑﻜﺘﺎﺵ

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Hacı Bektaş Veli, active 13th century (authorised)

Bektach, Hadji, active 13th century (variant)

Bektaş Veli, Hacı, active 13th century (variant)

Bektās̲h̲ Walī, Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ī, active 13th century (variant)

Ḥacī Bektaş-i Velī, active 13th century (variant)

Hacı Bektaş Veli, 13th cent (variant)

Hacibektaş Veli, active 13th century (variant)

Hacıbektaş Veli, d. ca. 1337 (variant)

Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ī Bektās̲h̲ Walī, active 13th century (variant)

Hadji Bektach, active 13th century (variant)

Ḥajjī Bektāsh Walī, of Khorāsān, active 13th century (variant)

حاجى بكتاش ولى (variant)

Biographical notes

Eponym of the Bektāşīyye; most venerated saint of Alevism and Bektashism. In Manāqib al-‘ārifīn (مناقب العارفين) by Aflākī (افلاقي), the earliest work with information on Ḥacı Bektāş,Ḥacı Bektāş appears as a disciple of Baba Resūl (Baba İlyās) (d. 638/1240) ((بابا رسول (بابا اليا ), He is represented as a dervish who does not abide by the sharī‘a. ‘Āşıḳpaşazāde (عاشق پاشا زاده, on the other hand, states that Ḥacı Bektāş came to Sivas from Khurāsān with his brother Menteş. The two of them went to Kayseri, after which they parted and Menteş returned to Sivas, where he was soon killed. Ḥacı Bektāş settled down in the small village of Ḳarahöyük and adopted a women name Ḫātūn Ana (Ḳadıncıḳ Ana) ( (خاتون انا (قادنجق انا) as his spiritual daughter. Abdāl Mūsā (fl. 14th century) (ابدال موسى), a key figure in the dissemination of Ḥacı Bektāş's teaching, was Ḫātūn Ana's disciple. Several waqf records reported by scholars demonstrate that Ḥacı Bektāş was dead before 691 AH [1291-1292 CE]. Ḥacı Bektāş's date of death appears as 669 AH [1270-1271 CE] in collection of manuscripts bound in Sivas in 691 AH [1291 CE] as well as in a late copy of Ḥacı Bektāş's hagiography. Velāyet-nāme (ولايت نامه), Ḥacı Bektāş's legendary biography or hagiography, exists in both prose and verse versions. The earliest verse version is attributed to Firdevsī (فردوسي), mentioned in biographical dictionaries as Firdevsī-i Rūmī or Uzun Firdevsī (fl. 15th century) (فردوسي رومي/اوزن فردوسي). It can be deduced that both prose and verse versions of the Velāyet-nāme were written after the development of Bektāşī lore in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries [1300-1499 CE], but before the institutionalization of the order by Balım Sulṭān (d. possibly 922/1516) (بالم سلطان). Considering the fact that the historical personages mentioned in the Velāyet-nāme also lived in the thirteenth century [1200-1299 CE], we can say that Ḥacı Bektāş might have met Ṭapduḳ Emre (fl. 13th century) (طبدق امره), Seyyid Maḥmūd-ı Ḥayrānī (d. 655/1257-58) (سيد محمود حيراني), Ṣarı Ṣaltuḳ (d. shortly after 700/1300) (صري صلطق), Aḫī Evrān (اخي اوران) (d. during the reign of Orḫān Ġāzī (اورخان غازي)) and Emīrci Sulṭān(d. 637/1240)(اميرجي سلطان). It is also possible that he sent one of his disciples to Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d.672/1273)(جلال الدين رومي). A key figure in the Velāyet-nāme is Aḥmed Yesevī (d. first quarter of the 13th century) (احمد يسوي) , who appears to have close tie with Ḥacı Bektāş. Contrary to the studies by certain scholars, historical data indicates that Ḥacı Bektāş was not a direct disciple of either Aḥmed Yesevī, Baba İlyās (بابا الياس), or Quṭb al-Dīn Ḥaydar (fl. 12th century) (قطب الدين حيدر).Ḥacı Bektāş was not a Yesevī or Ḥaydarī dervish. He did, however, come to Anatolia from Khurāsān or Turkestan with strong Yesevī connections and led an independent path in this land.

Title

Baḥru’l-ḥaḳā’iḳ

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Notes

This work is a mathnawi of 1359 couplets based on a Turkish copy of the Maḳālāt attributed to Ḥacı Bektāş. In the beginning of the work, the author Ḥaṭīboġlı Muḥammed (d. after 838/1435) (حطيب اغلي محمد) states that the work is a verse translation of Ḥacı Bektāş's Maḳālāt. Ḥaṭīboġlı adds some stories to supplement the content of Maḳālāt.

Date of composition: 812 AH [1409 CE]

Dedicatee: the Dhulkadirid ruler of Maraş and Elbistan, Naṣīrüddīn Meḥmed b. Ḫalīl Beg (1398-1443), ناصر الدين محمد ابن خليل بك, according to Ertaylan; Çandarlızāde II. Ḫalīl (Ḫalīl b. İbrāhīm) (چاندارليزاده ۲ خليل (خليل ابن ابراهيم according to Coşan (Coşan, 49-53). The name appears as Meḥemmed b. Ḫalīl in the work.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Abdurrahman, Güzel. Hacı Bektaş Velî ve Makâlât. Ankara:: Akçağ, 2002. (The edition in this monograph is taken from the associate professorship thesis of Esat Coşan)

Hatiboğlu, . Bahrü’l-Hakâyik. Edited by Ertaylan, Ismail H.. Istanbul: 1960. (facsimile edition of Manisa Muradiye 1311)

Studies

Coşan, M. Esad. Hatiboğlu Muhammed ve Eserleri. Istanbul: Server İletişim, 2008.

Erkan, Mustafa. "Hatiboğlu." TDVİA. 16 1997: 461-462, 461-2.

Hatiboğlu, . Bahrü’l-Hakâyik. Edited by Türk, Vahit. Ankara: TDK, 2009.

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Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 1311

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56 ff.

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Date of copy

15th. century