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The representative of the Khalwati order in Kastamonu before Şeyh Şâbân-ı Velî, and the founder of the first small mosque that stood where the Şâbân-ı Velî complex stands today.
The source records his death as 864 (1459), accompanied by a question mark. It is known that the Khalwatiyya existed in Kastamonu before Şeyh Şâbân-ı Velî, in the time of Seyyid Sünnetî Efendi: the order's activities began for the first time in the Şeyh Sünnetî Efendi Mosque, a small wooden building.
Şeyh Şâbân-ı Velî too at first worshipped in this mosque and carried on the order's activities there; but because the mosque lay outside the town in those years, at the people's request he worked for a time in the Honsalar Mosque, and after that mosque burned down he returned to the Şeyh Sünnetî Mosque. According to the inscription above the door of the present mosque, the building was rebuilt in 988 (1580) by Şücâ' Efendi, the spiritual guide of Murad III; the mosque also served as the tevhidhâne of the lodge.
Şeyh Seyyid Sünnetî Efendi, the first founder of the mosque, is buried in the burial enclosure in front of the qibla in the courtyard of the complex — that is, not inside the tomb of Şâbân-ı Velî but in the enclosure. The complex lies in the Hisarardı quarter and consists of a mosque, a tomb, a library, a kitchen, a fountain and two lodge houses.
Limit of this record: This record rests not on an article devoted to the sheikh himself but on the article about the complex in which his grave lies; the source gives no more about Seyyid Sünnetî Efendi than the above. The text has been kept within what the source provides and has not been padded out with architectural description.
Differing Scholarly Views
The year of death carries a question mark in the source itself. The encyclopaedia article gives the date of death as "864 (1459) [?]", that is, with a mark of hesitation. The atlas does not erase that hesitation: the year is carried not as a firm record but as a date the source transmits with doubt.
He has no article of his own. No separate article for this sheikh could be found in the TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam; what is known of him consists of a few sentences occurring within the article on the complex where his grave lies. The depth of this record is therefore limited, and that limit is not concealed.
Sources
- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) — Kemal Kutgün Eyüpgiller · vol. 38, pp. 210-211, entry “ŞÂBÂN-ı VELÎ KÜLLİYESİ”
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