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Ankara

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Ankara Milli Kütüphane

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Ankara Adnan Ötüken İl Halk Kütüphanesi

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Work 4: Muḳaddimetü’l-ḥaḳā’iḳ (Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418)

LOC subject headings

Sufism (Early works to 1800)

Didactic literature, Persian

Author

Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418

نسيمي

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Nesīmī (d. 820/1418 [?])

Seyyid İmādüddīn Nesīmī (d. 820/1417?)

ﺳﻴﺪ ﻋﻤﺎﺩﺍﻟﺪﻳﻦ نسيمي

Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (authorised)

Imadăddin Năsimi, approximately 1369-1418 (variant)

Imadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nasīmī, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nasīmī, ʻImād al-Dīn, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Năsimi, Imadăddin, approximately 1369-1418 (variant)

Nasimi, Imadeddin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nesimi, ca. 1369-ca. 1418 (variant)

Nesimi, d. 1404 or 5 (variant)

Nesimi, İmadeddin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nesimi, Seýit Umadutdin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nesimi, Umadutdin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seĭid Imadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seĭit Ymadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seyyid Nesîmî, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Ymadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Насими, Имадеддин, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

عماد الدين نسيمى (variant)

نسينى (variant)

نسيمي (variant)

نسيمي،, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

نسيمي،, حو. 1369-حو. 1418 (variant)

Sayyid ʻImād al-Dīn Nasīmī Tabrīzī, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

سيد عماد الدين نسيمى تبريزى (variant)

Nasīmī Tabrīzī, Sayyid ʻImād al-Dīn, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Tabrīzī, Sayyid ʻImād al-Dīn Nasīmī, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seyyid İmadäddin Näsimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Näsimi, Seyyid İmadäddin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Biographical notes

Nesīmī is an early Ottoman poet and mystic, famous for his Ḥurūfī worldview. He is believed to have come from Nesīm, near Baghdād. He was most likely of Turkoman origin, although his title of “Seyyid” also points to Arab blood. About 804 AH [1401 CE] he became a follower of Faḍl Allāh Ḥurūfī (d. 796/1394), whom he personally met, and eventually became his successor. After Faḍl Allāh’s death, he left Azerbaijan for Anatolia. He came to Bursa during the reign of Murād I (761-91/1360-89) and was not well received here. Ḥacı Bayram (d. 833/1430) refused to see him in Ankara. He eventually went to Aleppo, where he was flayed for his heretical views in 820 AH [1417 CE] (other dates are also given in the historical sources). Evliyā Çelebi (d. 1095/1684) mentions a lodge and a tomb for Nesīmī in this city. Nesīmī had Dīvāns in both Persian and Turkish, which he knew equally well, as well as possibly a Dīvān in Arabic which is no longer extant. His Turkish shows the characteristics of the Ādharī dialect. Nesīmī’s poetry focuses on Ḥurūfī teachings, the doctrine of the oneness of being, and the praise of the Twelve Imams. The latter aspect, in addition to his martyrdom, has led to the Alevi adoption of Nesīmī, who consider him as one of their seven great poets. Nesīmī also had an important historical role in the development of classical literature in Turkish, with his extensive use of complex images (maḍmūn).

Title

Muḳaddimetü’l-ḥaḳā’iḳ

مقدمه الحقاﺋق

Notes

This prose work is based on Faḍl Allāh Ḥurūfī (d. 796/1394)Jāvidān-nāma and deals with the practice of religion according to Ḥurūfī doctrine. Its attribution to Nesīmī is uncertain.

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

31b-39b ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

35

Bibliography

Studies

Alparslan, Ali. "Câvidân-nâme’nin Nesîmî’ye Tesiri." unpublished associate professorship dissertation, İstanbul University, 1967.

Babinger, Franz. "Nesīmī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. VIIILeiden: E.J. Brill, 1995: 8-8.

Bilgin, A. Azmi. "Nesīmī." TDVİA. 33, [n.d.]: 3-5.

Gibb, E.J.W.. History of Ottoman Poetry. London: Luzac & Company, 1900-09.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki. "Nesîmî." İslam Ansiklopedisi. IX, [n.d.]: 206-207.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki. Hurufîlîk Metinleri Kataloğu. Ankara: 1973.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki. Nesîmî, Usûlî, Rûhî. İstanbul: Kapı, 2014.

Köprülü, Fuat. "Nesimî’ye Dair." Hayat. I, no. 20 1927.

Olgun, İbrahim. "Seyyit Nesîmî Üzerine Notlar." TDAY Belleten. 1970: 47-68.

Olgun, İbrahim. "Nesîmî Üzerine Notlar." TDAY Belleten. 1971: 195-207.

Ünver, Mustafa. Hurûfîlik ve Kuran: Nesîmî Örneği. Ankara: 2003.

Üzüm, İlyas. "Nesīmī–Görüşleri." TDVİA. 33, [n.d.]: 5-6.

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Atatürk Kitaplığı 656

Atatürk Kitaplığı 1324

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1509

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 3575

Vatican Library 315

British Library 7175

Bodleian Library e13

Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi 946

Hacı Selim Ağa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 249

Konya Bölge Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 2715

Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 1143

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 1711

Ankara Milli Kütüphane A3363

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 149

Work 6: 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

Columns

1

Ruled lines

16

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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Atatürk Kitaplığı 656

Atatürk Kitaplığı 1324

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1509

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 3575

Vatican Library 315

British Library 7175

Bodleian Library e13

Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi 946

Hacı Selim Ağa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 249

Konya Bölge Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 2715

Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 1143

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 1711

Ankara Milli Kütüphane A3363

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 149

Physical Description

Seal

Seal of Niyāzī Baba, نيازي بابا, türbe-dār of Ḥacı Bektāş, حاجى بكتاش .

History

Date of copy

possibly 20th. century