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The figure to whom one of the most visited shrines of Erzurum belongs; a warrior whose identity is not known with certainty.
🔴 This record rests on an indirect source: the figure has no independent encyclopaedia article; what follows is what the article on the complex bearing his name gives. The source states in its very first sentence that his identity is not clear.
Two separate views are recorded about his identity. According to the first he may have been one of ten people assigned to teach Islam during the conquest of Erzurum under the command of Iyâd b. Ghanm. According to the second he is Abdurrahman b. Süleyman İbşîrî, the commander of the abdâl who died a martyr at Erzurum in 643.
His Tomb and Complex — The complex lies outside Erzurum near Eğerlitepe and consists of a mausoleum, a lodge and a mosque. The mausoleum, built in 1983, consists of two domed sections separated by a pointed arch in the middle, thus providing separate entrances for male and female visitors. The marble inscription on the western door attributes the restoration of 1796 to Ayşe Hatun, the wife of Governor Yûsuf Ziyâ Paşa. The adjoining mosque is in classical Ottoman architecture with its minaret and three-domed portico; its interior decoration dates from 1996 and its tiles were produced in the workshops of Kütahya. Recent expansions have added fountains, parks and landscaping, and the site has become a centre of pilgrimage.
Differing Scholarly Views
🔴 His identity is not certain. The source says so plainly and gives the two possibilities side by side: ① one of ten people assigned to teach Islam during the conquest of Erzurum under the command of Iyâd b. Ghanm; ② Abdurrahman b. Süleyman İbşîrî, the commander of the abdâl who died a martyr at Erzurum in 643. The atlas does not choose between them.
The limit of the record is the limit of the source. What is in hand is an article on architecture; there are no records of birth, education or death. This is why the sections are incomplete in this record.
The present state of the tomb is recent. The existing mausoleum is a construction of 1983; the interior decoration of the mosque dates from 1996. The oldest record in the building is the inscription of the restoration of 1796. The architecture the visitor sees does not survive from the figure's own age.
Sources
- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) — Hamza Gündoğdu · vol. EK-1, pp. 18-19, entry “ABDURRAHMAN GAZİ KÜLLİYESİ”
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