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A Turkish Sufi and poet; the deputy of Akşemseddin and the author of the Vahdetnâme.
His father was Alâeddîn-i Mısrî. From the endowments of his father and his relatives it is understood that he belonged to a wealthy and established family.
He attached himself to Akşemseddin; he received spiritual grace from him and later became his deputy. He passed the greater part of his life at his sheikh's side.
The course of his life can be followed through the records that mention him: Beypazarı (1436), Edirne (1443), İznik (1457) and Göynük (1458). After an endowment deed dated 1483 there is no information about where he was.
He died after 888 (1483) and before 1494.
His Works — 1. Vahdetnâme. His most important work; a Sufi-ethical mesnevî of 4250 couplets, completed in 865 (1460). 2. Münyetü'l-ebrâr (1453). A Turkish translation of a Sufi work. 3. Tercüme-i Kasîde-i Bürde. A Turkish rendering of Būsīrī's Arabic ode. 4. Risâle fî eşrâti's-sâa (862/1457). An Arabic treatise on the signs of the Hour.
His Tomb and Complex — His grave is at the Kasım Paşa Mosque in Karahisar.
Differing Scholarly Views
The date of his death is not a year but a RANGE. The source says that after an endowment deed dated 1483 there is no information about him, and that he died before 1494. What is in hand, then, is a lower bound (1483) and an upper bound (1494); the year between them is unknown. The atlas does not reduce this range to a single year (principle 6).
🔴 The atlas record reduces the range to a single year. The record shows the year of death as 1483; but this is the lower bound the source gives. According to the source the death fell between 1483 and 1494. Until the record is corrected the reader should know of this difference (principle 6).
Sources
- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) — İsmail E. Erünsal · vol. 1, pp. 291-292, entry “ABDÜRRAHİM KARAHİSÂRΔ
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External records: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam article