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Saints and Tombs of Tekirdağ

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The atlas holds 5 sourced records for Tekirdağ; every record is published with scholarly review and a citation chain. Breakdown: 3 Saints · 1 Scholar · 1 Ruler.

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Saint

Mehmet Pasha of Soğukkuyu

A 17th-century figure who served for many years as a Janissary Agha and, after retirement, settled in the Soğukkuyu neighborhood of Tekirdağ, where he founded a Sa'diyye order lodge and soup kitchen, spending his wealth on charity. Evliya Çelebi praised him in his Seyahatnâme as a 'commander who devoted his means sincerely to good works.' The lodge was demolished after the 1925 closure of tekkes, but his tomb was preserved through the efforts of historian Mehmet Serez. (Sources: Trakya Gazetesi; Tekirdağ Bakış 'most-visited tombs of Thrace')

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Saint

Muhittin Baba of Çorlu

An Ottoman-era figure whose tomb stands on Kumyol Avenue in Çorlu; per the inscription on his gravestone he died in 1843. A neighbourhood (Muhittin Mahallesi) is named after him and he is venerated locally. Detailed biographical information has not survived; his tomb is registered as a cultural heritage asset in the Cultural Inventory. (Sources: Evliyalar.net 'Muhittin Baba — Çorlu'; Kültür Envanteri)

TekirdağDied 1843View
Scholar

Ahmed Pertevî Efendi of Çorlu

An 18th-century Sufi and lodge poet, born in Çorlu, a disciple and khalifa of İsmail Hakkı Bursevî, a major figure of the Celveti order. In his youth he travelled with Bursevî to Damascus, studied under him, and copied his master's Rûhu'l-Beyân commentary. At the request of the people of Çorlu he was appointed khalifa in his hometown; he died in 1182/1768. NOTE: his burial place is disputed — the Türk Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü places his grave in the Aziz Mahmud Hüdâyî precinct in Üsküdar, while the Bormalı Mosque tomb in Çorlu is also attributed to him. (Sources: Türk Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü; camiler.org)

TekirdağDied 1182 AHView
Saint

Sarban Ahmed

Sufi and poet of the Bayrami Malamatiyya; disciple of Pir Ali Aksarayi, and successor of Ismail Ma'shuqi in the rank of qutb among the Bayrami Malamatis. He was born at Hayrabolu. What is known of his life rests largely on the information given by Nev'izade Atai in his Dhayl al-Shaqa'iq . According to Atai, he was in the sultan's service as a sarban (camel driver) on the Campaign of the Two Iraqs launched by Süleyman the Magnificent in 940 (1533-34); while the army was in Karaman he met Pir Ali Aksarayi , one of the Bayrami shaykhs, and took initiation from him at that time. The Bayrami Malamati Sarı Abdullah Efendi, in his Samarat al-fu'ad , records instead that he joined the campaign as sersarban , that Pir Ali Aksarayi discovered his aptitude and showed him favour, and that on the return from the campaign he left the army and stayed with his shaykh. According to the same author, during his spiritual training he composed many poems under the pen names Ahmedi and Kaygusuz . He then returned to Hayrabolu and carried on his work of guidance. Atai states that he was known as a man of ecstatic attraction ( jadhba ), that he was accused of heresy ( zandaqa ) on account of his spiritual temperament, yet that he was counted among the saints who had reached high spiritual ranks and possessed miraculous gifts. In this period, extremely critical for members of the order, he continued his activity without being prosecuted by the state, although some unfavourable rumours circulated about him. He died at Hayrabolu in 952 (1545). His Circle of Influence — After the execution of Ismail Ma'shuqi , son of Pir Ali Aksarayi, the rank of qutb among the Bayrami Malamatis passed to Sarban Ahmed. After him the line was continued by his disciple Husameddin Ankaravi ; Ankaravi, however, unlike his shaykh, did not escape prosecution. Another of his disciples was Alaeddin Efendi of Vize , who wrote poems under the pen name "Kaygusuz". Gazanfer Dede, trained by Alaeddin Efendi, was brought from Vize to Istanbul on a denunciation that he was a heretic and unbeliever, and was tried before the Imperial Council. His Poetry and Sufi Line — Sarı Abdullah Efendi quotes his poem that begins "I gave all I had to that Friend, no house or home is left to me / I washed my hands of it all, no two worlds are left to me" ; Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin Efendi also records two of his letters and some poems he says are his. The divan registered under his name is wholly imbued with the spirit of malamat and love of the Ahl al-Bayt, and contains about 3000 couplets; in the view of the article's author, such a divan must belong to a Sufi poet who had undergone the spiritual path, a description that fits Sarban Ahmed. The attribution of the divan is disputed (see Multiple Views). His Works — Copies of the divan attributed to him are catalogued under different titles: in the Istanbul University Library as Divan-ı Ahmed Sarbani and Divan-ı Ahmed Sarban Dukakinzade , and in the Millet Library as Divan-ı Ahmedi . Hüseyin Süzer wrote a doctoral thesis on the copies registered under the name of Ahmed Sarban or Dukakinzade Ahmed Bey, and Ayfer Kayabaşı a master's thesis on two copies in the Hacı Selim Ağa Library in Üsküdar. His Tomb and Complex — A tomb was later built over his grave. Having undergone various repairs, it was renovated in recent years in an undistinguished style, and today stands within the garden of the Hayrabolu Qur'an School.

TekirdağDied 952 AHView
Ruler

Gazi Ömer Bey

One of the Ottoman raider (akıncı) commanders, son of Turahan Bey , conqueror of Thessaly; a frontier lord active in the Morea, Thessaly and around Athens in the reign of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, and builder of the Gazi Ömer Bey Mosque and Tomb in Malkara. During the preparations for the conquest of Istanbul, in December 1452, he carried out important operations together with his father and his brother Ahmed to block aid coming from the Morea. During this campaign his brother Ahmed was taken prisoner by Demetrios, Despot of Sparta, and Ömer rescued him in December 1454. After Mehmed the Conqueror's Morea campaign of 860 (1456) he was charged with guarding the region. According to the source the two brothers acted together, but Ömer Bey's name appears more often in the sources; the Byzantine historian Chalkokondyles gives ample information about him and writes that he was active as bey of Trikala. In 1456 Ömer Bey took the lower parts of Athens, and in June 1458 he became fully master of the city. The following year he was dismissed by the Conqueror, who held him responsible for the disturbances in the Morea; after the Morea campaign he was again made governor of Thessaly and the Salonica region, and in this capacity took part in the Bosnian campaign. He then returned to the Morea, hastened to relieve the fortress of Gördüs besieged by the Venetians, drove them back and advanced as far as Modon and Koron (1463). In 1466 he defeated the Venetians who had attacked Balyabadra and went to Istanbul with his captives. In 1473 he was taken prisoner during the first clashes of the Battle of Otlukbeli against Uzun Hasan. It is known that he defeated the Venetians on the Isonzo in 882 (1477) and fought the Albanians the following year. After the death of his father Turahan Bey he took over the administration of the endowment his father had founded in the village of Kırkkavak (Kırıkkavak) near Uzunköprü. He has an endowment deed dated Muharram 889 (February 1484). The source states that his endowments were very rich: he built mosques, masjids, lodges, soup kitchens, baths, caravanserais, bridges and schools in Larissa, Trikala, Tırnova, Platamona, Çatalca, Fener, İzdin, Livadia, Serres, Drama, Malkara and Smederevo. His mosque in Malkara was built, according to the inscription over its portal, in 893 (1488); since the mosque and madrasa his father had built in Malkara have not survived, the source considers it possible that Ömer Bey had the old building pulled down and a new mosque built in its place. He died in Rabi' al-Akhir 908 (October 1502) and was buried in the tomb beside the mosque he had built in Malkara; Oruç Bey writes that he was ninety-six years old. Of his sons, Hasan Bey was a local administrator and has an endowment deed dated Shawwal 937 (May 1531); İdris Bey , who held the sanjaks of Niğde and Bayburt, won fame as a poet according to the biographical works of the time; another son named Durak Bey also served as a sanjak governor. His sons Hasan, Mustafa, Hamza, Eyüb and İbrahim beys are also recorded as having built charitable works. That Hasan Bey's son Ömer Bey appears as a raider commander in 961 (1554) indicates that the family kept up its tradition. His Tomb and Complex — The tomb stands in the courtyard of the mosque in the market area of central Malkara, immediately to the left (north-east) of the mosque. The three-line thuluth inscription in the tympanum over its door is dated 908 (1502); exactly when the tomb was built is not known. Octagonal and domed, the tomb is built of finely cut küfeki stone; traces show that a portico once stood before its door. Inside there is only Ömer Bey's stone sarcophagus. Restored together with the mosque in 2005, it has been made clean and well kept and is open for worship and visits.

TekirdağDied 908 AHView

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