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Founder of the Tâceddin Lodge at Hamamönü in Ankara, Tâceddinzâde Mustafa Efendi; he lived in the 17th century and is known among the people of Ankara as a Jalwati shaykh. In the literature about him he is called Tâceddin Sultan.
The source states plainly that there is not enough information about the lodge's founder. He was the child of a family originally from Ankara; it is related that the family moved to Bursa and later returned to Ankara. This report about his name and Ankara origin suggests that he may have been the son of Tezkireci Tâceddin Efendi, who, while a professor at the Kaplıca Madrasa in Bursa, was appointed mufti of Ankara in 1010 (1601) and died there in 1018 (1609).
His name is first met in 1075 (1664) at the head of the list of witnesses of the Aslanağa bin Muslu endowment deed drawn up in Ankara. It appears that he built a mosque together with the lodge; accordingly the Tâceddin Mosque and Lodge must have begun functioning in the middle of the 17th century. The inspection report of the Imperial Ministry of Endowments for the year 1270 (1853) records that he built the mosque and zawiya in the Tekke Ahmed quarter, on the site of the Şeyh Paşa Zawiya.
The same report and an appointment register list him among the deputies of Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi; these records agree with the report current among the people of Ankara that he was a Jalwati shaykh. Considering that Hüdayi came from Bursa to Istanbul in 992 (1584), served as shaykh at the Küçük Ayasofya Lodge and died there in 1038 (1628), it is, according to the source, highly probable that he reached him in his youth and received his licence from him.
His date of death is not known. The inspection report of 1853 shows that he had no children.
His Circle of Influence — After him the leadership of the lodge was held by Gizli Şeyh Mehmed Efendi and his descendants until Abdurrahman Efendi was appointed tomb-keeper in 1717. After Abdurrahman Efendi the office passed from father to son to Pir Mehmed, Şeyh Osman and Mustafa Efendi, in 1827 to Mustafa Efendi's brother Osman Vafi Efendi, and in 1853 to Osman Vafi's son Mehmed Şerif Galib (d. 1899). The lodge's last shaykh was Galib Efendi's son Mustafa Tâceddin Efendi (d. 1937). The source names Osman Vafi Efendi as the most powerful shaykh of the lodge after Tâceddinzâde.
His Works — Enver Behnan Şapolyo states that a miscellany compiled by Şeyh Derviş Muslu Ankaravi in 1147 (1734-35) contained Tâceddinzâde's awrad (litanies), a list of the lodge's shaykhs, various legends and Tâceddinzâde's poems; this miscellany is lost today. The text of the litanies, which survives in several copies, was published by Sadi Bayram, and a treatise containing some of his poems by Mustafa Aşkar.
His Tomb and Complex — The tomb west of the rectangular mosque and the minaret to its east are built of the red andesite stone peculiar to the Ankara region; the tomb has a Baghdadi dome. In 1892 it was decided to demolish the mosque, minaret and tomb and rebuild them with funds allotted by Abdülhamid II from the privy purse; the verse inscription over the tomb's entrance records that construction of the mosque was completed in 1319 (1901). Additions made in the 1970s to enclose the tomb were removed in the 2008 restoration. The Tâceddin Tomb remains today, as in the past, the most visited centre in Ankara after the tomb of Hacı Bayram-ı Veli. The lodge's surviving guest hall is where Mehmed Akif wrote the Turkish National Anthem on 17 February 1921.
Differing Scholarly Views
Was he Hüdayi's deputy? — The inspection report of 1853 and an appointment register count him among the deputies of Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, and popular tradition in Ankara says the same. The source, however, notes that these records are very late and that no such name is found among Hüdayi's known deputies; nonetheless, on chronological grounds, it considers it highly probable that he received a licence from him. The atlas records both findings side by side.
The name "Tâceddin" and his family — The source says that the name Tâceddinzâde (son of Tâceddin) suggests he may have been the son of the Ankara mufti Tezkireci Tâceddin Efendi, and it also considers a connection of his family with the Tâceddinoğulları, who founded a principality in the Niksar-Samsun region, possible. Both are presented by the source as possibilities; the atlas makes no definite judgement.
Location of the grave — The source calls the tomb west of the mosque the Tâceddin Tomb and records that it is one of the most visited centres in Ankara; but it does not state explicitly who is buried in it. It also notes that an outer tomb belonging to the lodge's other shaykhs and the original graveyard disappeared through later urban changes. The atlas marker points to the Tâceddin Tomb.
Sources
- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) · vol. 39, pp. 339-341, entry “Tâceddin Dergâhı”
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