Abdürrahîm Tırsî

Abdürrahîm Tırsî is an Ottoman saint and Sufi poet who was raised in the village of Tirse near İznik and died in İznik in the month of February in the Hijri year 927 (1520 CE). His father was Bâyezîd Fakih, who served as imam in the village. He received his spiritual training under the great saint Eşrefoğlu Rûmî; later he married Eşrefoğlu Rûmî's daughter Züleyhâ Hâtun and thus became his son-in-law. He was succeeded by his son Pîr Hamdi Efendi. It is stated that he wrote his poems in syllabic meter and in a plain language, that he had a divan but that this divan has not been found; it is related that his hymns (ilâhî) were recited in the Kâdirî lodges. According to the sources, various legends are told about him: among these are that on one occasion he realized only afterward that a person he had met was Khidr; that while cutting wood in the forest a small amount of soup sufficed for many plates; that food was sent to him by angels in the guise of nomads (yörük); and that a dog which came to the grave for forty days had its eyes opened on the forty-first day. These accounts are related in the sources connected to him as legends pointing to his spiritual rank. After his death he was buried in İznik, beside his teacher Eşrefoğlu Rûmî.