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Work 4: Maḳālāt (Ḥacı Bektāş (d. possibly 669/1270-71))

LOC subject headings

Sufi literature

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

Maḳālāt

ﻣﻘﺎﻻﺖ

Notes

The only manuscript of this work is dated 913 AH [1508 CE], and located at the Süleymaniye Library, Denizli Yazmaları, 393/4. No studies have been undertaken comparing its content with that of the Turkish Maḳālāt (ﻣﻘﺎﻻﺖ). Although mistakes in Arabic have lead some scholars to assume that this manuscript is a translation from Turkish to Arabic, this does not seem plausible.

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

104v-131r

Bibliography

Studies

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Veliyyettin Ulusoy 1

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Copyist: Emet Faḳīh b. Ḥasan (امت فقيه بن حسن)

History

Place

Ilgın, Konya (Turkey)

Date of copy

16th. century