A Digital Atlas of Sacred Geography
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Born in the village of Beyseki near the Melet River in the Ordu region, he received his first education from his learned father Yusuf Efendi. After studying under Sheikh Mustafa Rumi in Çorum and receiving his ijaza, he came to Niksar and founded a lodge in the Karşıbağ quarter, becoming known for his preaching and guidance. He died on 30 January 1937 at about ninety years of age and was buried in the Melik Gazi cemetery in Niksar.
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A Khorasan dervish whose complex of tomb, lodge and mosque stands in Şeyh Nusrettin (Tekke) village near Zile. His tombstone reads 'Sheikh Nasir al-Din'; popular usage turned it into Nusret/Nusreddin. Endowment records of his lodge dated 754 AH (1353), 770 AH (1368) and 792 AH (1389) survive and the square-planned domed tomb is dated to the 14th century. Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname counts him among the deputies of Khwaja Ahmad Yasawi.
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A dervish who lived in Tokat at the end of the 13th century. He is reported to have been a freedman of Safiyeddin, daughter of the Seljuk statesman Muineddin Pervane. He had his lodge-mosque-tomb on present-day Gaziosmanpaşa Boulevard in central Tokat built in 691 AH (1291-92 CE); the crown-gate inscription names the building 'Dar al-suleha' (abode of the righteous). His grave lies inside the lodge.
An Azeri Turkish divan poet and Khalidi-Naqshbandi sheikh born in Karabakh in 1805. A disciple of Ismail Siraceddin Shirvani in the path of Mevlana Halid al-Baghdadi. After his death in Harput in 1886 his body was brought to Amasya and buried in the Beyazıt Paşa quarter; his tomb was built beside the Shirvanlı (Azerbaijanis') Mosque.
A Khalidi-Naqshbandi sheikh born in 1782 in Kürdemir village (Şamahı, Shirvan). A successor of Mevlana Halid al-Baghdadi, who gave him the title 'Siraceddin', he came to Amasya in 1828 and spent his final years there, dying in a cholera epidemic in 1847. He is buried in the Yukarı Türbe built by his son Şirvanizade Mehmed Rüştü Pasha.
A Halveti sheikh born near Niğde (Ortaköy), one of the five renowned successors of Yahya-yı Şirvani. After leaving İskilip he settled in Amasya, founding a lodge and devoting himself to worship and learning. He died in Amasya in 902/1496 and is buried within the Mehmed Pasha Complex (mosque/imaret).
A Halveti sheikh born in Amasya, also known as Gümüşlüzâde. After joining the Halveti order in Shirvan under Sadreddin-i Hiyavi, he returned to Amasya in 1405 and worked to spread the Halvetiyya in Anatolia, his lodge (endowed in 1413 by Yakub Pasha) becoming the order's center. He died in 1433 and is buried in the Pir Ilyas (Yukarı Pirler) tomb near Çilehane Mosque.
The second pîr
Originally named Hızır Bali, a Sufi regarded in the Bektashi order as the 'second pîr' after Haji Bektash Veli. Born in Dimetoka, he reorganized the Bektashi order and died in 922/1516. His tomb within the Haji Bektash Veli Complex at Hacıbektaş was built in 1519 by Şehsuvaroğlu Ali Bey.
A Sufi poet, son of Somuncu Baba (Shaykh Hamid-i Veli). Known for works such as his Divan and Muhabbet-name, he is regarded as a pioneer of the Bayrami order in Aksaray. He died around 1488 and is buried in his tomb in the Şeyh Hamid neighborhood of Aksaray.
A great scholar (real name Mehmed) who authored works in exegesis, hadith, fiqh, literature and medicine. He taught for years at the Zinciriye (Zincirli) Madrasa in Aksaray; Molla Fenari, the first Ottoman Shaykh al-Islam, was among his students. He died in his hometown Aksaray and was buried at his lodge in the Ervah cemetery.
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A great Sufi master whose real name was Hamid b. Musa, nicknamed 'Somuncu Baba' (the bread-seller) for distributing bread. Renowned for his Quranic exegesis at the opening of the Bursa Grand Mosque, he spent his final years in Aksaray and died there in 1412. His funeral prayer was led by his disciple Haci Bayram-i Veli. (Note: although some later traditions claim his grave is in Darende, the TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam regards that claim as unverified and affirms Aksaray as the place of death and burial.)
Ottoman historian, pioneering physician and poet. Accused of Bektashi affiliation due to his membership in the Beşiktaş Scientific Society, he was exiled to Tire (İzmir) in 1826 and died there about two months later. He authored the Tarih-i Şanizade and Mir'atü'l-ebdan, the first modern Turkish anatomy book. His grave was lost when its cemetery was removed in 1916; his tombstone was later found and moved to the Tire Museum.
Hanafi jurist and scholar of legal methodology and hadith who lived in Tire during the Aydınoğulları period; also known as Firishteoglu. He taught at the medrese built by Aydınoğlu Mehmed Bey in Tire. He met Sayyid Sharif al-Jurjani, who accompanied Timur to Tire after the Battle of Ankara. Author of Sharh Manar al-anwar and Mabariq al-azhar; he died and was buried in Tire (his death is dated to 821/1418 or 822/1419).
Sufi and Qur'an commentator who was educated in Sivas and joined the Zeyniyya order; known as al-Ayasuluqi because he lived in Ayasuluk (Selçuk, İzmir) until the end of his life. His best-known work is Uyunü't-tefasir. He died in Selçuk in 1455-56 and was buried there; a small tomb was later built over his grave.
Hanafi jurist and theologian (b. Balıkesir 1523), affiliated with the Bayramiyye order. He was appointed professor at the medrese in Birgi in 1566 and lived there until the end of his life. He died of plague during a visit to Istanbul (981/1573) and was brought back for burial in Birgi (Ödemiş, İzmir). He authored some sixty works, including et-Tarikatü'l-Muhammediyye, el-Avamil and the Vasiyetname.
A member of a leading 14th-century ahi (guild-fraternity) family of Ankara; he is buried in the mausoleum built in 731/1330-31 for his father Ahi Hüsameddin. He died in 751/1350-51. The tomb stands beside the Ahi Şerafeddin Mosque, popularly known as the Arslanhane Mosque.
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He is the founder (pir) of the Bayramiyye, the first Sufi order founded by a Turkish mystic born in Anatolia. Born around 1352 in the village of Zülfazl (Solfasol) near Ankara, he became a disciple of Somuncu Baba and died in Ankara in 833/1430. His tomb stands beside the mosque bearing his name, which he had built shortly before his death.
A successor of Baha al-Din Walad (the father of Mawlana Rumi) and Mawlana’s first spiritual guide. After Baha al-Din’s death he came to Konya to train Mawlana, then settled in Kayseri where he died (c. 1241).
Whose real name was Mûsâ and whose epithet was Merkez Muslihuddîn, Merkez Efendi was a major Sufi belonging to the Sünbüliyye branch of the Halvetiyye order. He was born in the village of Sarı Mahmudlu near Denizli; after completing his studies he entered the Sufi path and became a disciple of Sünbül Sinan Efendi, sheikh of the Koca Mustafa Paşa lodge, from whom he received his diploma (hilâfet). After serving as a guide at the hospice of the Hafsa Sultan complex in Manisa and elsewhere, he was appointed head of the Koca Mustafa Paşa lodge in Istanbul following his master Sünbül Efendi's death in 936 (1529). He died in 959 (1552) and was buried beside his lodge outside Mevlânâkapı; his tomb is one of Istanbul's important pilgrimage sites and gave its name to the district of Merkezefendi.
Shaykh Yahya b. Umar al-Bashiktashi
A scholar and mystic, foster-brother of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, known for his lodge in Beşiktaş. He was renowned for his depth in knowledge, medicine and Sufism. He died in Istanbul in 1571; his tomb is in Beşiktaş.
Mahmud b. Fadlullah al-Uskudari
Patron of the Celvetiyye order and one of the most influential Ottoman mystics. He abandoned the posts of judge and professor to become a disciple of Üftade and founded his lodge in Üsküdar. He instructed sultans and died in Üsküdar in 1628.
Whose real name was Yûsuf b. Izzeddin, Âteşbâz-ı Velî was the cook of the lodge of Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî and a venerated figure in the Mevlevî tradition. According to legend, when the kitchen ran out of firewood, at Mevlânâ's playful remark he cooked the food with flames issuing from his feet; his epithet "âteşbâz" (one who plays with fire) derives from this account. In Mevlevî lodges the kitchen hearth was named after him as the "station of Âteşbâz-ı Velî," and he was remembered with respect in the blessings recited after meals. He died in 684 (1285), and his tomb, built in the Seljuk architectural style, stands near Aşkan hill on the Meram road in Konya. It is regarded as the first shrine in the world raised for a cook.
Muhammad b. Ishaq Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Stepson and foremost follower of Ibn al-Arabi, a great mystic and scholar who systematised the doctrine of the unity of being. He taught for many years in Konya and was a contemporary and friend of Mawlana. He died in Konya in 1274.
Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Ali al-Tabrizi
A travelling mystic from Tabriz, regarded as the spiritual companion and guide of Mawlana Rumi. His meeting with Mawlana in Konya (1244) is among the most discussed encounters in Sufi history. The place and date of his death are disputed in the sources; his shrine in Konya is a place of visitation.
