Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Velî Araştırma Dergisi (Sep 2023)
DEDİĞİ SULTAN MENAKIBNAMESİNDE TESPİT EDİLEN KERAMET MOTİFLERİ ÜZERİNE KÜLTÜREL BİR İNCELEME
Abstract
Saints are the representatives who constitute the sacred side of the world in which they live and are thought to have extraordinary characteristics. Every element belonging to saints has been accepted as sacred and has been adopted as mediator between God and the servant. There is the same tendency in popular Islam, and for this reason, many legends containing the life stories and miracles of saints have been formed. In particular, the spread of the sanctity of the saints to large masses and the social acceptance of the miracles were ensured by the religious legends with a high persuasiveness. While some of these religious legends spread over a wide geography, some legends spread in confined space. Dedigi Sultan’s legend were also formed in a certain region and the sanctity of the saint was limited only to the confined space where it spread. Dedigi Sultan, who does not have enough information about his historical life, is among the saints of Konya. The information about Dedigi Sultan, who is thought to be descended from Ahmet Yesevi, is mostly based on religious legends. According to the religious legend, Dedigi Sultan appears before us as a saint who is purified of all material feelings that gives pleasure to people and who shows various extraordinary things. The religious legend includes both his legendary life and various beliefs and cultural elements. Thus the miraculous motifs in the religious legend of Dedigi Sultan were classified and given the universal motif numbers. A cultural analysis was made on the miraculous motifs identified and the cult of the saint, which is a synthesis of old Turkish beliefs and Islam, which has been carried from the past to the present, has been revealed.
