SEYYİD MAHMUD-I HAYRANÎ VE AKŞEHİR’DE SEYYİD MAHMUD-I HAYRANÎ MANZUMESİ

Year 2004, Issue: 3, 59 - 69, 01.12.2004

Yusuf Küçükdağ

Abstract

Seyyid Mahmud-i Hayrani and the Piece of Verse ‘Seyyid Mahmud-i Hayrani’ in Akşehir

Abstract

Seyyid Mahmud-i Hayrani is a Turkish mystic who lived in Akşehir in
the 13th century. He was in contact with his contemporaries Khadji Bektash-i
Wali, Mawlana Calal al-Din al-Rumi and Sarı Saltuq, and exchanged
his ideas with them. Although he was a sheikh of tasawwuf (Islamic
Mysticism), the religious order (tariqat) he had established did
not spread outside Akşehir. However, he was known as an Awliya (Muslim
Saint) during the reigns of Anatolian Seljuk and Ottoman Empire,
and his grave was continuously visited.
Of the building mentioned in the piece of verse ‘Seyyid Mahmud-i
Hayrani’, today only the tomb and Ferruh Shah Masjid (small mosque)
stand still. But the zaviye (complex), madrassah (theological school),
imaret, madrassah masjid, hamam (public bath) and the graveyard had
disappeared. Because of this, the places of the mentioned buildings
cannot be determined.
Seyyid Mahmud-i Hayrani Complex was used by the Rufais when
Seyyid’s grandson Seyidi Ali was a sheikh. In the second half of the 18th
century, it was seized by the Bektashis, and it remained under their control
until the tekkes and zaviyes (complexes) were closed in 1925.