{"title":"Diyarbakırlı Bir Aile: Süleyman Nazif ve Faik Âli","authors":"Mustafa Kara","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.4.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.4.55","url":null,"abstract":"Önce babası ve dedesi de şâir olan Diyarbakırlı Said Paşa’nın baştan sona hayat ve ahlâk dersi olan meşhur “Hazret-i Allah Utandırmaz Seni” redifli şiirini1 okuyalım: Sen usandırma eli el de usandırmaz seni Hîlekârlık eyleme kimse dolandırmaz seni Dest-i a’dâdan2 soğuk su içme kandırmaz seni Korkma düşmandan ki âteş olsa yandırmaz seni Müstakim ol3 Hazret-i Allah utandırmaz seni Hep geçer âlemde hiçbir hâlete yoktur sükûn Zevkâ bak değmez teessüf etmeğe dünyâ-yı dûn4 İstikamet şerr-i a’dâdan5 seni eyler masûn6 Hakk ider eshâb-ı sıdkın hasmını elbet zebûn Müstakim ol Hazret-i Allah utandırmaz seni İster isen hıfz ide ırzın Hüdâ-yı lemyezel Irzına â’dâ-yı bedhâhın7 b ile v erme h alel Tâ ezelden söylenir halkın dilinde bu mesel Celb eder elbette insana mükâfâtı amel Müstakim ol Hazret-i Allah utandırmaz seni","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139295536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Şeyh Mustafa Dağıstânî (1824-1909)","authors":"Kevser Kıvanç Karataş","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.38","url":null,"abstract":"The land of the Ottomans had witnessed many migration movements. Dagestan and the people of Dagestan are one of the most oppressed groups under the threat of Russia. In this article, I will touch upon the detailed biography of a Naqshī-Khālidī sheikh of Senirkent-Isparta who was separated from his family at a very young age. The short history of the lands of North and South Dagestan is also included in the article. He was one of the sheiks of Khālidī branch of Naqshbandiyya Sūfī order, which was established by Mawlānā Khālid al-Baghdādī and the most widespread Sūfī order at that time in the Ottoman lands. This article will further include Muṣṭafā Dagestānī`s connections with the renowned scholars and Sūfī masters of his time. While narrating his life story, I will demonstrate the relationships among the Sūfī masters and how the scholarly life of the intellects intertwined in the first quarter of the 19th century in Western Anatolia as well. Moreover, this article will encompass recently acquired family archives as sources of his biography and networks. . Keywords: Shaykh Muṣṭafā Dagestānī, Dagestan, Senirkent, Naqshbandiyya, Mawlānā Khālid al-Baghdādī","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129375152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passive Politics and Poetics of Spiritual Resistance in Taliban Afghanistan","authors":"M. Shahrani","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.44","url":null,"abstract":"Peoples of Central Asia in general and Afghanistan specifically have been traumatized by Western colonial aggression, occupation and low intensity forever wars for more than a century. Much has been written about their armed struggles in this region, but their passive and spiritual resistances have been for the most part ignored. In this paper I discuss two significant forms of their passive resistance: the saga of the repeated century-long transnational migration of a small community of Kirghiz (Kirgiz) from the Osh Valley to the Pamirs of Afghanistan and from there to the safety of Anatolia in eastern Turkey; and the reliance of the educated Afghan youth on the spiritual resistance poetry of Rumi and other masters to cope patiently with the tyrannical environment of the Taliban controlled Afghanistan. Key words: Spiritual resistance, poetic of resistance, migration, Afghan Kighiz, Afghan youth, Taliban.","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129060779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sufism, Attention and Digital Colonization","authors":"Doyle Waddick","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.37","url":null,"abstract":"The contemporary world is being transformed by digitization with social life, politics and economics all in a process of flux. In this article we examine three key concepts, namely attention, the commons and digital colonialism. Attention economics argues that we have far too much information, but not enough attention. The received wisdom goes that attention has become a commodity in extremely short supply compared to the huge quantity of information available. However, the notion of digital commons allows us to imagine attention as a shared resource to be available to all, just as water or air that must be. The notion of digital colonialism allows us to imagine data and attention as resources which huge companies are extracting from human consciousness just as oil and coal are extracted from the earth. Attention is harvested and data extracted from humankind’s activities on digital media to generate profits for giant tech companies such as Meta and Google. However, the deeply rooted ‘mind and body cultivation’ practices of traditional cultures provide another perspective on attention which may not be in such short supply. Indeed, these suggest a different model of attention based on abundance and not scarcity. Foucault refers to such practices as ‘technologies of the self’. This article suggests that Sufi theory and practice can provide creative solutions to the over-solicitation of our minds by the global digital media platforms. The Sufi practice of tawajjuh (turning towards the eternal often through the intermediary form of a guide) allows us to consider the art of orientating attention spiritually as a technology beneficial to the self and others. Furthermore, Sufi practices, while active in knowledge production, are also underpinned by a theory of knowledge, ma‘rifa. An object of knowledge for the social sciences, they are very much active in the production of knowledge. From a normative point of view, the development of a dialogue between Sufism and the social sciences may allow us to imagine the generative abundance rather than an inevitable scarcity of attention. Keywords: Sufism, attention, data colonialism, commons, epistemology, technologies of the self.","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126307052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mesnevîhan Ahmet Cevdet Paşa (d. Lofça, 26 Mart 1823 / ö. İstanbul, 26 Mayıs 1895)","authors":"Mustafa Kara","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.42","url":null,"abstract":"Bazı insanlar hayatın bir alanında ömrünü tüketir. Bazı insanlar farklı alanlarda at koşturur. Bunların bir kısmı başarılı olur, hoş sada bırakır; eserleriyle, fikirleriyle, talebeleriyle yaşamaya devam eder. Bazıları hased, hırs ve şahsî menfaatleri sebebiyle nâhoş sadâlar bırakır. Sonra gelenler ise onların yapıp ettiklerini ibret nazarıyla okur ve kendi bakış açılarına göre değerlendirirler. Ahmet Cevdet Paşa, XIX. yüzyılda Tanzimat döneminin tam ortasında çok farklı alanlarda hizmet veren, ilim, fikir, hukuk, maarif, tarih ve siyaset dünyasının en üst noktalarında hoş sadâlar bırakan şahsiyetlerden biridir. Bu cümlenin, “hayatında hiç hata yapmamıştır” anlamına gelmediğini ilave etmeye gerek var mıdır?","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125224249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tasavvuf Literatüründe “Anne” Kavramı ve Mürşid Olarak Anneler: Türâbî (Biyolojik) Anneden İlâhî Anneye","authors":"Hülya Küçük","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.39","url":null,"abstract":"In Sūfī literature, there are many terms that include the word “mother/al-umm”. As limited to the subject of “spiritual guidance in Sufism in general and the guidance of the mother in particular” –without diving into other material about the concept of “mother” in Sūfī literature–, this article deals with the following main ideas: In the history of Sufism, there were examplary mothers such as Ibn Khafīf’s mother Umm Muḥammad; Ibn al-ʻArabī’s turābī (biological) mother Nūr, Ibn al-‘Arabī’s divine mother Fāṭima Bintu Ibnu’l-Muthennā and Kenan Rifāī’s mother Hatice Cenân Vâlide Sultân, who were described as “guides” in the literal sense. It is a remarkable detail that of these, Ibn Khafīf’s is known as al-Shayh al-Kabīr and Ibn al-Arabī is known as al-Shayh al-Akbar. That is to say that the leading figures of Sufism were brought up under the surveillance of their mothers. In addition to these mothers, all turābī mothers are the most worthy of the quality of being a guide (Murshid) having a major role in upbringing of her child, which begins before she/he is born. Besides, the mother is very sincere in all of her efforts to educate her child, not having any other intention than desiring happiness for him/her in this world and the hereafter. Thus, the hazards that al-Muḥāsibī warned about (i.e., slackness in respecting the rights of Allah while teaching/guiding others, falling into hypocrisy, and neglect to take his own lower-soul into account) do not pose a problem in mother’s education of her child. Keywords: Guidance, al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī, Mother, Divine Mother, Abū Abdillah Ibn Khafīf, Ummu Muḥammad, Muḥyī al-dīn Ibn al-ʻArabī, Mother Nūr, Fāṭıma Bint Ibn al-Muthannā, Hatice Cenân Vâlide Sultân.","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124021872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Doctrine of One Actor: Junayd’s View of Unity (Tawhīd)","authors":"Ansārī Muhammad Abdul Haq","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.41","url":null,"abstract":"İlk sûfîler arasındaki en göze çarpan figür, Cüneyd’dir. Zîrâ Cüneyd, tasavvufun ana akımının teşekkülüne o devirdeki diğer herhangi bir şahıstan daha fazla katkı sağlamıştır. XIII. yüzyılın meşhur Hintli âlim ve sûfîsi olan Şâh Veliyullah (ö. 1176/1762) tasavvufun gelişimi hakkındaki son derece aydınlatıcı olan değerlendirmesinde Cüneyd’in katkısını aşağıdaki alıntıda olduğu gibi tasvir eder: Bütün tarîkat müessisleri ve tasavvuf akîdesinin şârihleri veya en azından bunların çoğunluğu her ne kadar amelî tahakkuklarındaki yöntem konusunda birbirlerinden farklılık arz etseler de tarîkatin ana esasları üzerinde ittifâk etmişlerdir. Bu ana esaslar seyyidü’t- tâife Cüneyd ismi ile ilişkilidir. Şöyle ki, bu esasların çoğu onun tarafından formüle edilmiştir. Kendi çağındaki sûfîler ona râcîdir. Hattâ hiçbir şeyhe ihtiyaç duymayan pîrler (Üveysîler) dışındaki bütün tarîkatler ondan çıkar.1","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114226498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tasavvufun Gündelik Hayata Tesiri Hakkında Türkçedeki Bazı İfadelere Dair Ömer Tuğrul İnançer’in Tespitleri","authors":"Derya Kılıçkaya","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.43","url":null,"abstract":"Omar Tugrul Inançer, who grew up in a family and environment with Ottoman remnants, is a person who received his mystic education and manners by personally experiencing it from the environment where he grew up. He was a Sūfī, a man of faith who was “bred at the bottom of the knee”, so to speak, of the perfect masters of his time, who were considered important. Although he described himself as “sofimeshrep” in order not to use his Sūfī identity either because of the current conditions or as an advertising element, his qualification as a murshid-e-kamil has always attracted attention. The hadith, “Believers do not die but rather migrate from some place to another” which is frequently mentioned in forty hadith translations in verse was often used by Omar Tugrul Inançer. He himself “migrated” to the hereafter on September 4, 2022. Inançer, who is a very good orator, has many works written in conversational style. It is among the aims of this article to evaluate the mysticism and daily life in his book, Vakte Karşı Sözler (Words Against Time), the first edition of which was published in 2006, in terms of our language. The book essentially consists of translating a Sūfī conversation carried out by Ayşe Şasa Oran with Omar Tugrul Inançer. The audio recording of this conversation was later deciphered by Berat Demirci and was also made into a book. There are two titles in this book on the subject of Sufism and daily life. The first of these is the conversation that took place around the questions asked by Ayşe Şasa. The second was held in 2003 at the Turkish Literature Foundation. This is the text of the conference given by Omar Tugrul İnançer. In this study, the effects of some mystical words in our language will be evaluated with the determinations of İnançer, based on both texts. Keywords: Turkish, word, Omar Tugrul Inançer, mysticism, daily life.","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124252081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wolof Sufi Oral Narratives’ Structure and Function","authors":"Mamarame Seck","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.40","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the unstudied rich Wolof Sufi oral cultural productions and their contribution to the knowledge about Islam in Senegal. It only focuses on oral production by Sufi leaders and their followers. This consists of an oral corpus of the life stories of past and current Sufi leaders, woven by multiple (re) tellers across generations, designed in such a way that they can give Sufi adepts examples to follow and, possibly, reproduce. The storytelling varies according to the speaker’s skills and charisma, the audience’s expectations and context of the performance. The combination of all these factors makes the structure of the stories unique, especially compared to those coming from western cultures. Keywords: Narrative, Sufism in Senegal, Sufi oral Production, Islam in Senegal.","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124792998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Foreign and Imaginal In Ibn ‘Arabī’s Turjuman al-Ashwaq","authors":"Rachid Acim","doi":"10.32739/ustad.2023.3.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2023.3.36","url":null,"abstract":"Turjumān al-ashwāq is a mystical treatise that was penned by the great Sufi saint Ibn ‘Arabi. This work, which was rendered into English under various appellations, reflects his orthodoxy of love and serves as a plea for initiating friendly relations amidst cultures and world nations. The allegorical poems and annotations underscore that Ibn ‘Arabi possessed a third eye and clairvoyance when he approached specific truths around him. Building on Henry Corbin’s framework of “creative imagination” and Stuart Hall’s theoretical model of “preferred reading”, I showcase how Ibn ‘Arabi’s inner and insightful journey to the realm of the heart shaped his knowledge and simultaneously unleashed his cognition about dialogue and Otherness. Keywords: Ibn ‘Arabi; Kashf; Turjumān al-ashwāq; the Foreign; Preferred Reading.","PeriodicalId":422995,"journal":{"name":"Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132380585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}