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Country

Turkey

City

Ankara

Institution

Ankara Milli Kütüphane

Collection

Ankara Adnan Ötüken İl Halk Kütüphanesi

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687

Contents

Work 1: Şi‘r (Abdal Musa, active 14th century)

LOC subject headings

Sufi poetry, Turkish

Author

Abdal Musa, active 14th century

ﺍﺑﺪﺍﻝ ﻣﻮﺴﻰ

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Abdāl Mūsā

Abdal Musa, active 14th century (authorised)

Abdal Musa, 14th cent (variant)

Abdal Musa Sultan, active 14th century (variant)

Musa, Abdal, active 14th century (variant)

Biographical notes

A major saint of Bektashism and a prominent member of the Abdālān-ı Rūm, ابدالان روم, who probably played a major role in the dissemination of Bektashi teachings. According to İsmā‘īl Belīg’s Gül-deste-i Riyāż-i ‘İrfān (كلدستهء رياض عرفان), Abdāl Mūsā was one of the forty abdāls who migrated from Bukhara before the conquest of Bursa. Historians such as Ṭaşköprizāde , ‘Ālī and Ḫoca Sa‘deddīn state that Abdāl Mūsā participated in the conquest of Bursa and had close relations with Geyikli Baba. Abdāl Mūsā is portrayed as Bektashi in ‘Āşıḳpaşazade, who describes him as a follower of Ḥacı Bektāş’s spiritual daughter Ḫātun Ana. This affiliation is supported by the fact that Abdāl Mūsā’s disciple Ḳayġusuz Abdāl is the first dervish known to call himself Bektashi. ‘Āşıḳpaşazade also relates a tradition regarding Abdāl Mūsā’s role in the Bektashisation of the Janissary corps. We know from Ḳayġusuz Abdāl’s poems that Abdāl Mūsā carried a club and addressed his dervishes as “abdāls”. His followers wore animal hides, carried dervish bowls, and practiced blood-shedding during Muharram. The name of Şeyḫ Muṣṭafā Abdāl Mūsā appears on an inscription dated 811 AH [1408 CE], probably belonging to a rundown lodge, which figures on the right wall of a fountain at Denizli. If we accept that Abdāl Mūsā was alive on this date, then it becomes impossible for him to have attended the conquest of Bursa (726 AH [1326 CE]). An official document concerning Teke-ili during the reign of Mehmed II affirms the presence of an Abdāl Mūsā lodge near Finike, founded in the middle of the 14th century [1300-1399 CE]. This must be the lodge which became the lodge of Kāfī Bābā at a later date. The lodge in Elmalı, known in our day as the Abdāl Mūsā lodge, was founded during or after the 16th century [1500-1599 CE]. In time, the traditions relating to Abdāl Mūsā were transferred from one lodge to the other. A record in Evliyā Çelebi shows that this process was not yet complete in the 17th century [1600-1699 CE]. In some Bektashi sources and in the inscription at the Kāfī Baba Tekkesi near Finike, Abdāl Mūsā is designated as “pīr-i sānī” (the second great master). The lodge of Abdāl Mūsā is one of the four Bektashi lodges holding the rank of khalifa. Abdāl Mūsā and his disciple Ḳayġusuz Abdāl are name holders of two of the twelve sheepskin ceremonial seats (pūṣt) in the Bektāşī meydān (ceremonial room), linking them to the duties of ayaḳçı (holder of domestic duties such as cleaning) and naḳīb (helper of the mürşid) in the Bektashi ceremony (cem‘).

Title

Şi‘r

شعر

Notes

Poems attributed to Abdāl Mūsā appear in a number of mecmū‘as. However, most of these belong to the 19th century [1800-1899 CE], thus making the attribution doubtful. No studies have been conducted on the subject.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Studies

Akçay, İlhan. "Abdal Mûsâ Tekkesi." Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1972: 360-373.

Güzel, Abdurrahman. Kaygusuz Abdal (Alâeddîn Gaybî) Menâkıbnâmesi. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, 1999.

Güzel, Abdurrahman, ed. Kaygusuz Abdâl Divânı. Ankara: MEB, 2010.

Karamustafa, Ahmet T.. God’s Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period 1200-1550. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994.

Korkmaz, Murat, ed. Abdal Musa ve Erkânı. İstanbul: Horasan Yayınları, 2006.

Köprülü, Mehmed Fuad. "Abdal Musa." Türk Halk Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi. İstanbul: Burhaneddin Basımevi, 1935.

Köprülü, Mehmed Fuad. "Abdal Musa." Türk Halk Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi. Istanbul: Burhaneddin Basımevi, 1935. (reprinted with notes and additions by Orhan F. Köprülü in: Köprülü, Mehmed Fuad. “Abdal Musa.” Türk Kültürü 124 (1973): 198-207.)

Köprülü, Orhan F.. "Abdal Mûsâ." TDVİA. 1 1988.

Oktay, Zeynep. Mesnevî-i Baba Kaygusuz. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, 2013.

Refik, Ahmet. "Fatih Zamanında Teke-ili." Türk Tarih Encümeni Mecmuası. 2, no. 79, [n.d.]: 65-76.

Tanman, M. Baha. "Abdal Mûsâ Tekkesi." TDVİA. 1 1988.

Uçar, Ramazan. Alevîlik-Bektaşîlik: Abdal Mûsa Tekkesi Üzerine Sosyolojik Bir Araştırma. Ankara: Berkan Yayınevi, 2012.

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Physical Description

Columns

1

Ruled lines

17

Seal

Waqf record and seal of Belġradlı Yaşar Āġānī dated 1275 AH [1858 CE] on f. 118a.

History

Date of copy

possibly 20th. century

Provenance

Seal of İsmā‘īl Bābā, إسماعيل بابا dated 1244 AH [1828 CE] on f. 110b.