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Turkey

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Konya

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Konya Bölge Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

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Burdur İl Halk Kütüphanesi

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1109

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Work 1: Mecmū‘a-i eş‘ār ve fevā’id (Yūnus Emre (d. 1320))

LOC subject headings

Sufism

Turkish poetry

Author

Yūnus Emre (d. 1320)

يونس امره

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Yunus Emre, -1320? (authorised)

Эмре, Юунус, -1320? (variant)

Юунус Эмре, -1320? (variant)

امره, يونس, -1320? (variant)

يونس أمره, -1320? (variant)

Ėmra, I︠U︡nus, -1320? (variant)

Ėmre, I︠U︡nus, -1320? (variant)

Ėmre, I︠U︡unus, -1320? (variant)

Emre, Jonuz, -1320? (variant)

Emre, Yunus, -1320? (variant)

Imră, I̐unus, -1320? (variant)

I︠U︡nus Ėmra, -1320? (variant)

I︠U︡nus Ėmre, -1320? (variant)

I̐unus Imră, -1320? (variant)

I︠U︡unus Ėmre, -1320? (variant)

Jonuz Emre, -1320? (variant)

Younous Emré, -1320? (variant)

Yunus Emre, d. 1320? (variant)

Biographical notes

Turkish mystic poet of the second half of the 13th century [1200-1299 CE] and the first quarter of the 14th century [1300-1399 CE] , who was extremely influential in the dissemination of Sufi teachings in Anatolia and the formation of tekke poetry, in addition to his leading role in the use of ‘arūḍ meter in Old Anatolian Turkish. Information on Yūnus's life is scarce and relies heavily on the references in his poems as well as legendary tales. His dates of birth and death have been subject to various debates, which were largely concluded by a record published by Adnan Erzi ( (Erzi_1950, pp. 85-89). Taken from a mecmū‘a at Beyazıt Library (Beyazıt Library 7912, , 38v). This record indicates that Yūnus lived for 82 years and died in 720 AH [1320-1321 CE] This puts his date of birth in the year of 638 AH [1240-1241 CE]. According to the general opinion, Yūnus was born in an area nearby the Sakarya river and lived in the Ṭapduḳ Emre convent located at Emrem Sultan near Nallıhan. He donated his land in Sarıköy to the convent. In some of his poems Yūnus Emre mentions that he lived to an old age. Certain of his poems indicate that Yūnus had children. In a document dated 924 AH [1518 CE] in Konya Registers No. 871 of the Ottoman Archives, reference is made to Yūnus's son İsmā‘īl and to the fact that Yūnus Emre bought a land named Ammā Yerce from Karamanoğlu İbrahim Bey. Tough his references to being ümmī in his poems led popular legend to consider him as illiterate, it is now well accepted that Yūnus was fairly educated. Gölpınarlı ( (Golpinarli_1961, pp. 100-101)) draws close parallels between some of his poems and those of Saʻdī and Mevlānā Celāleddīn Rūmī, concluding that Yūnus knew enough Persian to do translations. The precise nature of his education is not known. References in his poems indicate that Yūnus was a disciple of Ṭapduḳ Emre , who was in turn the disciple of Ṣarı Ṣaltuḳ. In addition to these two masters, Yūnus mentions Mevlānā Celāleddīn Rūmī in his poems, for whom he has great veneration. He is critical of the dervish Geyikli Baba (14th cent.). The lack of references to Ḥacı Bekṭāş Velī indicate that, contrary to the passages in Bektashi sources, Yūnus Emre was not directly related to Ḥacı Bekṭāş. We know from his poem that Yūnus Emre travelled extensively. The places mentioned in his poems include Kayseri, Sivas, Maraş, “upper lands” (Azerbaijan), Damascus, Shiraz, Baghdad, Tabriz and Nakhchivan. References in his poems suggest that he did not go on pilgrimage. There are graves attributed to Yūnus in various places in Anatolia as well as in Azerbaijan. Scholars agree on the authenticity of the grave in Sarıköy, near Sivrihisar. This grave was moved in 1946 [1946 CE] in the building of the railway between Ankara and Eskişehir and was subsequently transferred to its own newly built musoleum in 1970 [1970 CE]. Faruk K. Timurtaş was the first scholar to indicate that Yūnus Emre and ‘Āşıḳ Yūnus were two separate poets. ( (Timurtaş, Faruk, ed. Yunus Emre Dîvânı. Ankara: Başbakanlık Basımevi, 1986., pp. 19)). The poet ‘Āşıḳ Yūnus lived in Bursa and died in the beginning of the 15th century [1400-1499 CE]. The fact that Yūnus Emre used adjectives such as “ ‘āşıḳ, miskīn, dervīş” to refer to himself resulted in the mixing of the poems attributed to the two poets. This is visible in a majority of the manuscripts.

Title

Mecmū‘a-i eş‘ār ve fevā’id

مجموعۀ اشعار و فوائد

Notes

Main language of text

Turkish

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Work 2: Poems (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

Poems

Notes

Other than four poems, of which a comparative edition was published by Hasibe Mazıoğlu, Ḥacı Bayram has no extant works. Some other poems and two letters have been wrongly attributed to him. Mazıoğlu's edition relies on printed sources and undated or late manuscripts. In the same article, Mazıoğlu documents the influence of Yūnus Emre (يونس امره) on the given poems. Several commentaries were written on the poem which begins with "Çalabum bir şār yaratmış iki cihān arasında". The most famous and voluminous of these belongs to İsmā‘īl Ḥaḳḳı Būrsevī (d. 1137/1725) (اسماعيل حقي بورسوي).

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Studies

Ateş, İbrahim. "Hacı Bayram-ı Velî Vakfı ile İlgili Üç Yeni Belge." In I. Hacı Bayram-ı Velî Sempozyumu Bildirileri: 8-9 Mart 1990. Ankara: Ankara Valiliği İl Kültür Müdürlüğü Yayınları, 1991, 20-31.

Azamat, Nihat. "Hacı Bayrâm-ı Velî." TDVİA. 16 1996.

Bayramoğlu, Fuat. Hacı Bayram-ı Velî. Yaşamı-Soyu-Vakfı, I-II. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1983.

Bayramoğlu, Fuat. "Hacı Bayram-ı Veli Hakkında Yeni Bilgiler Bulunan İki El Yazması Eser." In I. Hacı Bayram-ı Velî Sempozyumu Bildirileri: 8-9 Mart 1990. Ankara: Ankara Valiliği İl Kültür Müdürlüğü Yayınları, 1991, 37-54.

Başkan, Seyfi. Ankara Hacı Bayram-ı Veli Camii ve Türbesi. Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı, 1998.

Bursalı Mehmed Tahir, . Hacı Bayrâm-ı Velî. Istanbul: Necm-i İstikbal Matbaası, 1329 (1911). (Transliterated edition: Bursalı Mehmed Tahir Efendi. Hacı Bayram-ı Veli. Edited by Metin Çelik. Istanbul: Özgü Yayınları, 2012)

Cebecioğlu, Ethem. Hacı Bayram Veli. Ankara: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, 1994.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbaki. Melâmîlik ve Melâmîler. Istanbul: Milenyum Yayınları, 2013. (First edition: Istanbul: Devlet Matbaası, 1931)

Mazıoğlu, Hasibe. "Hacı Bayram-ı Velî’nin Şiirleri ve Mektupları." In I. Hacı Bayram-ı Velî Sempozyumu Bildirileri: 8-9 Mart 1990. Ankara: Ankara Valiliği İl Kültür Müdürlüğü Yayınları, 1991, 102-112.

Mehmed Ali Ayni, . Hacı Bayrâm-ı Velî. Istanbul: Evkâf-ı İslâmiye Matbaası, 1343 (1924).

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Physical Description

Number of folios

ff.

History

Date of copy

20th. century