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The atlas holds 8 records for Aksaray. Each record's sources and review status are shown on its own page. Breakdown: 7 Saints · 1 Scholar.
A Hanafi jurist (full name Mevlânâ Bedreddin Ahmed b. Muhammed al-Muhtâr al-Râzî al-Hanafî) said to have reached the rank of mujtahid, who served as professor and judge in Aksaray. Regarded as a disciple of Evhadüddin Kirmânî, he died in the mid-13th century. His Seljuk brick-arched tomb is in the Bedir Muhtar Cemetery. (Sources: Aksaray e-Şehir Encyclopedia; Evliyalar.net)
A recent Aksaray saint of the Naqshi-Qadiri tradition, a disciple of Hacı İsmail Hakkı, Qadiri sheikh of Nar (Nevşehir). His open-air tomb is on the hill behind the mosque in Aksaray's Bedir Muhtar Cemetery; his son Çekiçlerli İzzet Baba is buried in the same cemetery. (Sources: Evliyalar.net)
A Sufi belonging to the Bayramî Melâmî path; he held wide influence in the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent. It is thought that he was born at Aksaray in the year 882. His real name is recorded in the sources as Bahâeddin Ali or Alâeddin Ali . According to the information given by his disciple Abdurrahman el-Askerî, he died on 26 Sha'bân 945 (17 January 1539) at Kayseri, and his body was taken to Aksaray and buried there. His Poetry and Sufi Line — He adhered to the doctrine of the unity of being and stressed the accord of the sharia with Sufism: he embraced the thought that "whoever is outside the sharia is not of us" . He asked his dervishes to live by a craft rather than to go about in dervish dress — this is the everyday counterpart of the Melâmî line. His Tomb and Complex — He died at Kayseri, and his body was transferred to Aksaray and buried there.
A sheikh of the Bayramî order; Evliya Çelebi records that he is buried in the Ervah Cemetery of Aksaray near the tomb of Şeyh Hamîdüddin (Somuncu Baba). His three-domed tomb with arched ornament and an adjoining cüzhâne reflects old stone craftsmanship. (Sources: Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâme; Evliyalar.net)
A saint called 'Külhani Ali Baba' because he worked as a furnace-stoker at an Aksaray bathhouse; Evliya Çelebi visited his tomb and mentioned it. His three-windowed, blind-domed, uninscribed tomb in the Sebil quarter was built by Hacı Ali Paşa, chief steward of Sultan Abdülhamid II. (Sources: Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâme; Evliyalar.net)
A 13th-century Sufi known as the master of Yunus Emre. His tomb in Taptuk village of Aksaray sits within a complex of mosque, library and fountain, renovated in 2023. DISPUTED/MAKAM: rival claims exist (e.g. Nallıhan-Sarıköy). (Sources: Aksaray e-Şehir Encyclopedia [Ottoman archives, Hacı Bektâş Velî Velâyetnâme]; Evliyalar.net)
One of the scholars who won fame in the religious, literary and rational sciences in the reign of Murad I; the professor of the Zincirli Medrese at Aksaray. His given name was Mehmed. His descent reaches, in the fourth generation, Fahreddin er-Râzî (d. 606/1210). There is no detailed information about the date of his birth. He passed his life and carried on his scholarly activity at Aksaray, where he taught at the Zincirli Medrese. The date of his death is disputed: Bursalı Mehmed Tâhir records the year 791 (1388-89), Brockelmann 1377, and Adnan Adıvar 1388. His Circle of Influence — In his lessons he divided his students into three groups: those who took the lesson while walking ( meşşâiyyûn ), those who studied in the portico ( revâkıyyûn ), and those who studied within the medrese. Among the students he trained are such renowned scholars as Molla Fenârî and Hasan Paşa Niksârî. His Works — He wrote numerous works in the fields of exegesis, hadith, jurisprudence, ethics, literature and medicine. The principal ones are Şerhu'l-Îzâh , Hâşiye ale'l-Keşşâf , Hallü'l-Mûcez , Keşfü'l-i'râb and Ahlâk-ı Cemâlî .
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A Sufi; he is also known as Şeyh Hamîdüddin Aksarâyî and Hamîd-i Velî . His real name was Abdullah. Most of the sources take him to have been from Kayseri; some claim Aksaray as his birthplace. It is related that his ancestors migrated from Turkestan. He received his first Sufi training from his father Şeyh Şemseddin Mûsâ; he then studied the religious sciences at Damascus. He attached himself to the Safavid circle and was trained under Alâeddin Erdebîlî (d. 832/1429), the grandson of Safiyyüddîn-i Erdebîlî. Having completed his spiritual journey at the Ardabil lodge, he settled in Bursa. In his first years at Bursa he lived modestly, selling bread in the streets and calling out "loaves, O believers!" . The epithet Somuncu Baba (the bread-seller father) comes from this. At the opening of the Ulucami, Emîr Sultan presented him to Sultan Bayezid I to deliver the Friday sermon. It is related that his commentary on the Sûrat al-Fâtiha resolved difficulties that had challenged even Molla Fenârî. He died in 815 (1412); in the last period of his life he had settled at Aksaray. His Circle of Influence — His most important student is Hacı Bayrâm-ı Velî , the founder of the Bayramiyye. Among his other disciples are counted Şeyh Şücâüddin Karamânî, Şeyh Muzaffer Lârendevî and Molla Fenârî. His Works — Three treatises are attributed to him; but because the manuscripts are of late date, their attribution to him is disputed. His Tomb and Complex — The traditional sources place his grave at Aksaray. Some modern scholarship argues for the district of Darende in Malatya; against this, the source states that the nisba Aksarâyî and the sources of the period support Aksaray .
