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- Date de réalisation : 16 Novembre 2020
- Durée du programme : 75 min
- Classification Dewey : Islam. Rites, cultes, Vie et pratique religieuse, soufisme, confréries, sciences des religions
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- Catégorie : Conférences, Séminaires
- Niveau : niveau Doctorat (LMD), Recherche, 2ieme cycle
- Disciplines : Histoire
- Collections : Histoire ottomane et républicaine
- ficheLom : Voir la fiche LOM
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- Auteur(s) : Voswinckel-Filiz Esther
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On the Other Shore: The Things of a Sufi Saint in Istanbul
Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi (1541-1628), the “second Pir” (pir-i sani) of the
Celvetiyye Sufi-order, is a famous Sufi saint in Istanbul. His mausoleum
(türbe) on the slope of a hill in Üsküdar has not ceased to be a vital
focus of pilgrimage up to the present. Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi is known as
one of the four protectors of the Bosporus, and according to local lore,
seafarers between the opposite shores of Sultanahmet and Üsküdar cling
to the “Hüdayi-way” (Hüdayi yolu), on which the saint is remembered to
have crossed the waters on a stormy day.
Until the 1980’s, a
large collection of personal belongings (emanetler) of the saint and his
followers such as several mantles (hırka), ritual headgear (tac-ı
şerif), shoes, a stick (asa), ritual paraphernalia and many contact
relics such as pieces of the cover (kısve) of the Kaaba or small pieces
of musselin called destimal used to be kept in the türbe. In the past
decades however, this extraordinarily rich collection of the mausoleum
was gradually transferred to the archive of the State Directorate of
Mausoleums and Museums (Türbeler Müze Müdürlügü) in Sultanahmet. While
many historical inventories of Istanbul’s Sufi mausoleums dispersed and
fell prey to looting after the closure of the Sufi shrines in 1925,
among the locals of Üsküdar it is considered as one of the miracles of
the saint that “not even a handkerchief” of the collection of his türbe
got lost. Yet, presently, this rare collection is inaccessible to the
public.
Drawing on my fieldwork at the türbe of Aziz Mahmud
Hüdayi in Üsküdar and on my archival research, I wish to offer a close
look at this inventory of a famous Istanbul Sufi türbe and to shed light
on the ways and stories of some of its items after 1925. An inquiry
into the “biographies” of the belongings of the shrine of Aziz Mahmud
Hüdayi invites us to pay attention to the vitality of portable and
textile things in the aesthetics and materiality of Sufi shrines and to
some local practices of Sufism in Istanbul
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