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Work 1: al-Wāridāt (Bedreddin, Şeyh, 1358?-1420)

LOC subject headings

Sufism

lccn:sh85084286

Author

Bedreddin, Şeyh, 1358?-1420

شيخ بدر الدين

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Simavna Kadısı-oğlu Maḥmūd b. İsrāʾīl (d. after 819/1416)

Şeyh Bedreddīn Simāvī

Simavna Kadısıoğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Maḥmūd b. Isrāʾīl

Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Qaḍī Simāwna

سماونة قضيسي اوغلى محمود بن اسرائيل

شيخ بدر الدين سماوي

شیخ بدر الدین محمود بن قاضي سماونة

Bedreddin, Şeyh, 1358?-1420 (authorised)

Abd-i Zâif Mahmud bin Israil, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Badr ad-Dīn ibn Qāḍī Samāwnā, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Badr al-Dīn Samāvī, Maḥmūd ibn Isrāʼīl, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Badr al-Dīn Sīmāvī, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Badraldin Mahmoud Bin Israel Bin Abdülaziz, Sheikh, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Badraldin, Sheikh, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Bedreddin Mahmud, Sımavnalı, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Bedreddin Simâvî, Şeyh, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Bedreddin Simavî, Şeyh, 1363?-1420 (variant)

Bedredin Eretika, Sheĭkh, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Bedredin Makhmud bin Israil, Sheĭkh, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Bedrettin, Şeyh, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Bedrüddin Mahmud, Şeyh, 1358?-1420 (variant)

İbn Ḳāzī Sīmavna, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Shaikh Badruddin, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Sheikh Badraldin, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Simaveni, Bedredin, Sheĭkh, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Sımavna Kadısıoğlu Şeyh Bedreddin, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Simavnalı Bedreddin, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Simāwnā, Badr al-Dīn, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Simawna, Badruddin, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Simāwnah, Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Qāḍī, 1358?-1420 (variant)

بدر الدين،, شيخ (variant)

Şeyh Bedreddin, 1358?-1420 (variant)

شيخ بدر الدين (variant)

Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Isrāʼīl, 1358?-1420 (variant)

بدر الدين محمود بن اسرائيل،, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Sīmāwī, Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn al-Qāḍī Isrāʼīl, 1358?-1420 (variant)

سيماوي، بدر الدين محمود بن القاضي اسرائيل،, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Sīmāwī, Maḥmūd ibn al-Qāḍī Isrāʼīl, 1358?-1420 (variant)

سيماوي، محمود بن القاضي اسرائيل،, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Rūmī, Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn al-Qāḍī Isrāʼīl, 1358?-1420 (variant)

رومي، بدر الدين محمود بن القاضي اسرائيل،, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Rūmī, Maḥmūd ibn al-Qāḍī Isrāʼīl, 1358?-1420 (variant)

رومي، محمود بن القاضي اسرائيل،, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Shaykh Badr al-Dīn, 1358?-1420 (variant)

Biographical notes

The son of a qadi born in the town of Simavna outside of Edirne sometime in the middle of 14th century [1300-1399 CE], Simavna Kadısı-oğlu Maḥmūd b. İsrāʾīl (usually known as Şeyh Bedreddīn) is portrayed in the menākıb-nāme (hagiography) composed by his grandson, Ḫalīl b. İsmāʿīl, as a descendant of the Seljuk sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Kayqubād I, a claim which in all likelihood is fictional. After studying in Bursa and Konya, Bedreddīn travelled to Syria and Egypt in the 1380s [1380 CE] where he became a favorite student of Mubarakshāh al-Manṭiqī (d. 816/1413) and classmate of Sayyid Jūrjānī. He became a disciple of the Sufi shaykh Ḥusayn al-Akhlatī who sent him to Tabriz where Timur had set up his court and held sessions with the most learned scholars of the day; he then traveled in Iran, furthering his knowledge of the esoteric. When he returned to Egypt he took up the post as tutor to the Mamluk Sultan Barquq’s son, Faraj. He became Akhlatī’s spiritual successor upon his death in Cairo in 1397 [1397 CE]. In around 1405 [1405 CE] he travelled to ru, spreading his esoteric doctrines and gaining disciples such as the Karamanid ruler and the Aydınid beg Cüneyd. After returning to Edirne, he was appointed qāḍīʿasker (chief military judge) to the Ottoman prince, Musa Çelebi, who in 1411 [1411 CE] declared his sovereignty during the last phase of the Ottoman civil war. When Musa Çelebi was defeated by his brother Mehmed I in 816 AH [1413 CE], Bedreddīn was exiled to İznik. After escaping detention in İznik in 819 AH [1416 CE], he led an unsuccessful uprising in Rumelia against Mehmed I and was executed by the Ottomans.

Title

al-Wāridāt

الواردات

Notes

This short work is also by far the most controversial of Bedreddin’s oeuvre, and has been discussed by several modern scholars. To what extent the Bedreddin can accurately be ascribed authorship directly is controversial; some scholars have suggested it was put together by his murīds after his death; others have argued it was compiled during his lifetime from his oral (Turkish) pronouncements by his disciples and then turned into Arabic by Bedreddin himself (for an overview see (Ceylan, Semih. "Varidat." TDVIA. 42 2012: 520-522.)). However, Ḫalīl b. İsmāʿīl notes the Wāridāt as his grandfather’s last work. While the work apparently does not express any systematic thought, it focusses on wahdat al-wujūd philosophy. Especially controversial is Bedreddin’s treatment of the resurrection of the dead: he argued that in the afterlife bodies would not be reconstituted in their former forms; in addition, his treatment of the created nature of the world attracted controversy. Several Turkish translations of the work were made, the earliest no later than 906 AH [1500-1501 CE], but few early manuscripts of the Arabic do not seem to have survived, in contrast to Bedreddin’s other works. Most of the surviving mss (of which Kozan claims 12 exist) are 19th century [1800-1899 CE]. Further on the mss see (Kozan, Ali. "Şeyh Bedreddin: Hayatı, İsyan Hadisesi ve Varidat adlı Risalenin Metin Kritiği." yüksek lisans tez, Erciyes University Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2003. (based on the Nuruosmaniye ms 4900/5), pp. 110-117).

İznik or Rumeli (see (Ceylan, Semih. "Varidat." TDVIA. 42 2012: 520-522.)) in c. 820-823 [1417-1421 CE].

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

1b-65b ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

17

Bibliography

Editions

Dindar, Bilal. "Sayh Badr al-Din Mahmud et ses Waridat." PhD thesis, University of Paris IV, 1975.

Kozan, Ali. "Şeyh Bedreddin: Hayatı, İsyan Hadisesi ve Varidat adlı Risalenin Metin Kritiği." yüksek lisans tez, Erciyes University Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2003. (based on the Nuruosmaniye ms 4900/5)

Translations

Dindar, Bilal. Šayḫ Badr al-Din Mahmud et ses Waridat. Ankara: 1990.

Studies

Balivet, Michel. Islam mystique et revolution armee dans les Balkans Ottomans: Vie du Cheikh Bedreddin le 'Hallaj des Turcs' (1358/59 - 1416). Istanbul: 1995.

Brockelmann, . In GAL. , [n.d.], II, 290-1, 402, S, II, 315-II, 290-1, 402, S, II, 315.

Ceylan, Semih. "Varidat." TDVIA. 42 2012: 520-522.

Dindar, Bilal. "Bedreddin Simavi." TDVİA. 5 1992: 331-334.

Ismail, Halil b.. "Simavna Kadısıoğlu Şeyh Bedreddin." In Menakib. Gölpınarlı, A., ed. Istanbul: 1966;reprint.

Kastritsis, Dimitris. "The Revolt of Şeyh Bedreddin in the Context of the Ottoman Civil War of 1402–13." In Halcyon Days in Crete VII. Political Initiatives “From the Bottom Up” in the Ottoman Empire. Anastasopoulos, Antonis, ed. University of Crete Press, 2012, 233-250.

Kozan, Ali. "Şeyh Bedreddin ve Düşünce Tarihimizdeki Yeri." unpublished doctoral thesis, Kayseri: Erciyes University, 2007.

Taşköprülü-zade, . "al-Shaqā’iq al-Nu‘māniyya fi ‘Ulamā’ al-Dawla al-‘Uthmāniyya." Furat, Ahmed Subhi, ed. Istanbul: 1985, 49-52.

Yüksel, Mufid. Simavna Kadısıoğlu Şeyh Bedreddin. Istanbul: 2002.

Show filiations

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi no. 1441

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 304

Bursa İnebey Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 309

Nuruosmaniye Yazma Eser KÜtüphanesi 4900

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 6256

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1683

History

Place

Serez

Date of copy

possibly 16th. century