HOCA AHMET YESEVÎ KONULU YENİ BİR METHİYE (KIRIM EL YAZMASI)

Abstract

Hodja Ahmed Yassawi is a pioneer leader in the organization of Turkish Sufism and tariqa. His most significant work is “Divan-ı Hikmet”, the original of which does not exist today. It is claimed that some of the words of wisdom in Divan-ı Hikmet have not belonged to him and that those who followed in his footsteps may have been written in dedication to him. Many works in the genre of eulogy have been created about him as a sect elder and a great man. Based on these works, it can be claimed that the information about the life of Hodja Ahmed Yassawi is purely mythical. One of the eulogies written for Khoja Ahmad Yassawi is found in the manuscripts section of the Republican Crimean Tatar Library named after Ismail Gaspirali (GBUK RK “Respuplikanskaya Kırımskotatarskaya Biblioteka Imena I. Gaspirinskogo) in the capital of Crimea, Akmescit (Simferepol), in the conk registered under the number Tur- Ac 25. This text, which has never been published before, covers the pages from the middle of 110.v to the end of 112.r in the conk. It consists of 53 couplets. There are also other eulogies and parables in the conk. However, they do not belong to Hodja Ahmed Yassawi. They are written in Chagatai Turkish.The eulogy includes the names of Yassawi’s parents and his birth, and then the delivery to Yassawi of the date palm entrusted to Arslan Baba by the Prophet. However, the majority of the eulogy is about Mergazi (Mervazi) coming from Ürgenç, hearing the name of Yassawī, wanting to see what was said about him on the spot and to interrogate him.

Keywords

• hodja ahmed yassawi
• conk
• eulogy
• crimea
• manuscript