Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi

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Long political conflicts, especially the Karbala tragedy, and the narrative-oriented belief system trying to hold on to new geographies have created a new cultural basin in the Islamic geography and heterodox lifestyles caused by social differences, mostly under the influence of the Imamiye cult, which fell relatively far from the institutionalized Islamic perspective on Sufism, sects and creeds, revealed the "Ali cult", which turned into a myth from time to time. The historical development, sociological interaction and the forms they transform of the frame stories that make up the more painful narrative in the cenk, miraç and grief trilogy have revealed an important literature. In the narrative universe that constitutes this literature, Literary genres such as velayetname/menakıpname, gazavatname, cenkname, futüvvetname were formed around Ali. Velâyetnâme-i Ali Kerrema’llâhu Vechehû Deşt-i Erzene, which is the subject of the study and written by Seher Abdal, is an important indicator of how similar subjects and motifs seen in Shiite oral and written culture and Buyruk have repercussions in the Anatolian geography. It contains content that will contribute to the literature around Ali. While the work reveals the miraculous story of Ali in the narrative universe, it first brings Salman al-Farisi and then Muhammed to the stage with him. Seher Abdal tells the story of how Ali rescued Salman al-Farisi from a difficult situation in the language of Selman al-Farisi. In the continuation of the narrative, the miraj event is conveyed from the language of Muhammad. Velâyetnâme was written by Seher Abdal, who lived in the second half of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. Seher Abdal went to Yumgan, which is in the borders of Afghanistan, where his office is located, with the love he felt for Nasır al-Hüsrev, one of the important names of the Ismailism tradition, and with the inspiration he received from there, he translated the work of Nasır al-Hüsrev named Saʻâdet-nâme into Turkish. In this study, the relationship between Nasır al-Hüsrev and Seher Abdal has been revealed and the narrative of Velâyetnâme-i Ali Kerrema’llâhu Vechehû Deşt-i Erzene, which is a work in which Ali's miracles are brought to the narrative stage, shaped on the axis of deep love for Ali that brings them together on a common ground. In the second part of the study, the 123 couplet Velâyetnâme, which is between leaves 23b-28b of the manuscript registered at 03695 in the Turkish Manuscripts Department of the Rare Books Library of Istanbul University, was used for the first time in Latin letters presented to the world.