Memorate Samples Created About Mehmed Emin Tokadi

There are many nerrative types like legend, mythe and memorate at literature for Saints, who are described as friends of Allah, are considered to have a high religious authority. The saints whom people love, fear of their anger and take refuge in their intercession are thought to be helping people in need independent of time and place. It is believed that even though the bodies of these people who have eternal life are soil and disappear, their spiritual power continues to exist. The existence of these people is remembered and even their memories are constantly updated with narratives such as legend, legend and memorat created by people. Saints are very important person for people. Mehmed Emin Tokadi, one of the three precious saints of Istanbul, is one of these names. In March-June 2019, a field survey was conducted with a directed interview method. Sixty narratives have been identified and twenty-two of them are the memorates that constitute the subject of the study. This research is based on the kinds of memorates that Özkul Çobanoğlu created in his book Memorates in Turkish Folk Culture. Fifteen of the twenty-two memorates are included in the Çobanoğlu's memorate classification named “Types of Communication Through Dreaming and event that is believed to have occurred”. In this study, an examination was made based on this classification. It is extremely important to identify and record the memorates that occur as a result of people's personal experiences. The evaluation of these memorates is also necessary to shed light on social memory.

Keywords

Turkish Folk Literature, Mehmed Emin Tokadî, Saint, Narrative, Dreams, Memorate.