The Problem of Describing the Books Called Munteha by the Yazidjizade Brothers Yazıcızâde Kardeşlerin Müntehâ Adlı Eserlerinin Tavsîfi Meselesi
Islam Tetkikleri Dergisi, cilt.11, sa.2, ss.639-674, 2021 (Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 11 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2021
- Doi Numarası: 10.26650/iuitd.2021.972867
- Dergi Adı: Islam Tetkikleri Dergisi
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.639-674
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Ahmad Bidjan, Fusus al-Hikam, Ibn al-Arabi, Munteha, Ottoman Sufism, Yazıdjizade Brothers, Yazıdjizade Muhammed Efendi
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Kırklareli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Yazidjioghlu Muhammed Efendi (d. 855/1451) and Ahmad Bidjan (d. 870/after 1466) are two representative names in Ottoman Sufism history. Their written works were read and commented on literally and even translated into other languages both in and out of the Ottoman Empire. The Yazidjioghlu brothers, at the same time, were the disciples and successors of Hadji Bayram Velî. The brothers wrote many books; however, Muhammed Efendi’s verse Muhammadiyyah and Ahmad Bidjan’s prose Anwâr al-Âshiqîn were accepted as the two books that were mostly read by the scholars, follewers of sufism and the wider public. Muhammed Efendi wrote a commentary on the Fusus al-Hikam of Ibn Arabi whereas Ahmad Bidjan wrote two but the differences between these books were not specified thoroughly. Without these studies, it would be hard to follow the course of Sufistic views of the Yazidjioghlu brothers and understand their style and comprehend the reasons for their influence on the Ottoman Empire for such a long time. Yazidjizade Muhammed Efendi wrote a commentary on Fusus al-Hikam entitled al-Muntehâ ala al-Fusus, which was translated into Turkish by his brother, Ahmad Bidjan, with the title Kitab al-Munteha ala al-Fusus in 1453; in addition, Bidjan wrote another book with the same title in 1465. These two books have the significance of being the first Turkish commentary on Ibn Arabi’s famous book published in Anatolia. However, while discussing these books, some sources have regarded them as a taliqat/annotation of the work of Cendi. In this study, this judgment will be corrected, and the reasoning will be explicated by describing the Yazidjizade brothers’ aforementioned works. Another distinctive feature of Ahmad Bidjan’s second commentary on Fusûs al-Hikam is that it contains full commentaries and meanings of some verses of the Qur’an. An excerpt from this work that is of the utmost importance to the history of Sufism, especially to the Ottoman period of it, and to the histories of tafseer and Turkish literature will be published here for the first time.