Timur ve İrfanın İki Yüzü: Timur’un Rum Diyarı Şeyhlerinden Otman Baba ve Şeyh Bedreddin ile Bağlantısı

This study deals with two sheiks named Otman Baba and Şeyh Bedreddin around Timur. Today, the names of Otman Baba and Sheikh Bedreddin are still remembered by their affiliated communities. Otman Baba came to the Rum Diyarı from Khorasan with Timur. Sheikh Bedreddin met with Timur in Tabriz. In the legends of both sheikhs, Timur is mentioned and information is given about his relations with Timur. The political and military relationship, evaluated with the Battle of Ankara between Timur and Yıldırım Beyazıt, has a transference determined by the parties' own points of view. Apart from the political and military transmission, it is stated in the sources that Timur acted with many scholars and sheiks in his movement to Anatolia or that many scholars and sheiks met with him. This point both points to the problematic part of the field and provides an example that can draw attention to the wider and framed field that will contribute to overcoming this problem. According to this, both Otman Baba and Sheikh Bedreddin lived in Timur's time and carried out many activities after Timur. As a result, Timur brought Otman Baba with him from Khorasan and continued the relationship of Anatolia with Khorasan. The last connection with Horasan as the source of Anatolian wisdom was provided by Otman Baba. Later, the knowledge of Khorasan continued in Azerbaijan and reached Anatolia. However, Sheikh Bedreddin movement has an important place among the sufi or religious movements that emerged in Khorasan, Azerbaijan and Anatolia during and after the Timurid period. Sheikh Bedreddin movement was the beginning of a new era in which political and administrative thought and understanding were discussed and a different understanding was practiced. Keywords: Timur, Ankara War, Otman Baba, Sheikh Bedreddin, Rum Diyarı – Anatolia.