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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi

Collection

Ali Emiri

Shelfmark

1386

Contents

Work 2: Taṣavvufī Risāle (Ḥacı Bayram)

Author

Ḥacı Bayram

حاجي ﺑﻴﺮﺍﻡ

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Eş-Şeyḫ el-Ḥāc Bayram b. Aḥmed b. Maḥmūd el-Anḳaravī

الشيخ الحاج بيرام بن احمد بن محمود الانقاراوي

Hacı Bayram Veli, -1429 (authorised)

Bayram Veli, Hacı, -1429 (variant)

Hacı Bayram-ı Velî, -1429 (variant)

Hacı Bayram Veli, d. 1429 (variant)

Biographical notes

Ḥacı Bayram was born in Ankara in the first half of the 14th century [1300-1399 CE]. His name appears as Eş-Şeyḫ el-Ḥāc Bayram b. Aḥmed b. Maḥmūd el-Anḳaravī (الشيخ الحاج بيرم بن احمد بن محمود الانقاراوي) in two vaḳfiyye (وقفية) of the period, dated 831 AH [1428 CE] and 832 AH [1428-1429 CE]. The title of "ḳutbu’l-evliyā (قتب الاوليا)" given to him in these documents suggests that he was highly popular during his lifetime. According to ‘Abdurraḥmān el-‘Askerī (عبدالرحمان العسكري)'s Mir’ātu’l-ışḳ (مرءات العشق), Ḥacı Bayram lived for over ninety years. As stated in sources such as Lāmi‘ī Çelebi (لامعي چلبي), Ṭaşḳöprüzāde (طاشقوپرولی زاده) and Mecdī (مجدي), Ḥacı Bayram was born near the river Çubuḳ Suyu in Ankara, in a village named Solfasol (Ẕü’l-fażl). While working as a müderris (مدرس) in Ankara, he became a disciple to Ṣomuncu Baba (d. 815/1412) (صومنجي بابا), after the latter asked Sulṭān Şücā‘ (سلطان شوجاع) to go to Ankara and invite him. Mir’ātu’l-ışḳ (مرءات العشق), on the other hand, relates that Ḥacı Bayram was never a müderris. According to this work, Ḥacı Bayram became a disciple of Ṣomuncu Baba in 805 AH [1403 CE]. Upon his return to Ankara from Aksaray, Ḥacı Bayram did not build a lodge and did not found a waqf, but instead engaged in farming, as was recommended to him by Ṣomuncu Baba . Due to complaints against him, Ḥacı Bayram was called to Edirne in the first years of the reign of Murad II. The fact that Bayramī (بيرامي) dervishes became exempt from taxation in the following years shows that the order kept good relations with the state. Ḥacı Bayram died in 833 AH [1429-1430 CE] in Ankara and was buried next to the mosque built in his name a few years earlier. We know from İnce Bedreddīn (اينجه بدرالدين)'s foreword to his translation of Fakhr al-dīn ‘Irāqī (فخرالدين عراقي)'s Lama‘āt (لمعات) that Ḥacı Bayram frequently referred to this text in his talks and encouraged İnce Bedreddīn (اينجه بدرالدين) to translate it. Ḥacı Bayram did not designate a successor, which lead to the bipartition of the Bayramiyye (بيرامية) into two distinct paths: That of his disciple Aḳşemseddīn (d.863/1458-59) (اق شمس الدين), resulting in the Sunni order Şemsiyye(شمسية), and that of his disciple Emīr Sikkīnī (d. 880/1475) (امير سكيني), leading to the Sufi movement of the Bayramī-Melāmī (بيرامي-ملامي).

Title

Taṣavvufī Risāle

تصوفي رساله

Notes

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

80-84

Physical Description

Number of folios

n.a. ff.

Hand

Copyist:Yeşilzāde Ṣāliḥ (يشيل زاده صالح)

History

Date of copy

20th. century