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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Akbilek — Bahşî Halîfe

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 20 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Aşağıda tercemesi Bahşî Halîfe-Akbilek diye gelir, oraya mürâcaat olunmalıdır.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

The biography of this person comes below under the heading "Bahşî Halîfe-Akbilek"; it should be consulted there.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • terceme: a biographical sketch, a short life story
  • mürâcaat: to apply to, to consult

The Epithet Akbilek and Bahşî Halîfe

The entry consists only of a cross-reference in the book. Because the person might also be looked up as "Akbilek" in the alphabetical ordering of names, he is mentioned separately, and the real information is left to the entry "Bahşî Halîfe".

According to other sources, Akbilek Bahşî Halîfe was born in the village of Uluköy (formerly Sonusa) in Taşova, attached to Amasya; his date of birth is not known. After his early schooling in his locality he learned from the well-known scholars of the day, went to the Hejaz, and took lessons from teachers such as Suyûtî, Şeyhülislam Zekeriyyâ el-Ensârî and Sehâvî. Returning to Amasya, he taught for about forty years and was among the teachers of İbn Kemal, who was called "Müftî-i Sekaleyn". He was known in the fields of Quranic exegesis and hadith. Hayreddin Atûfî, who was raised in Amasya, also took his exegesis and hadith lessons from him.

Bahşî Halîfe, who belonged to the Halvetî order, had as his sheikh Muhyiddin bin Muhammed Efendi, one of the caliphs of Cemâl-i Halvetî. He died in Amasya in 930 [1523-24].

There is an account about the epithet "Akbilek": in a mosque, while explaining the merit of ablution, he raised his arms to show how sins fall away with the ablution water, and the congregation saw light radiating from his arms. The epithet remained from this event. This is a legend (menkıbe); it does not rest on a historical document.

Today

In the Akbilek Quarter of Amasya, near the railway line, there is a covered tomb; beside it a mosque bearing his name has been built.

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