Muhammed Murâd-ı Buhârî The Muslim Sufi Saint Seyyid and His Work “Risâle-i Nakşibendiyye” Copied by His Disciple Karababa-zâde Ibrahim Bursevî


This article aims to introduce the Sufi Saint, Seyyid Murâd-ı Buharî, who lived and died in Istanbul in the 18th century, his tradition, works, and appointed khalifahs. Seyyid Muhammed Murâd-ı Buharî’s father was the Nakîbü’l-Eşrâf of Semerkant town. He had paralysis and became paralyzed at the age of three but he travelled around the world more than healthy people. He went different places in order to study and he improved himself in religion and natural science. He went a pilgrimage to Mecca to apply the things that Islam orders. He saved a house where all sorts of sins was committed and turned it into a house of science called Murâdî Madrasah. He was buried in a tomb which is named after him in Eyup in Istanbul. Murâd-ı Buharî has several work in Arabic and Turkish and he usually wrote the things as a sermon or advice about the things should be done or shouldn’t be done, religious order, the basis of Islam, and advices on Naqshbandi, some of the were written by his students. The study in addition also aims to transliterate a booklet into today’s Turkish titled “Zikr Hakkında Kelâm-ı Dürer-bâr-ı Kutbü’l-’Ârifîn Seyyidü’l-Muhakkıkîn Sânî-i Hâce-i Ahrâr A’nâ Bi-hî Eş-Şeyh Murâdi’n- Nakş-bendiyyü’l-Buhârî Hazretlerinin Sohbet-i Şerîfelerinden İstimâ’dır” It is a conversational manuscript compiled from the saint’s talks to his regular circle by one of his khalifahs, Karababa-zâde Ibrâhîm-i Burûsevî Efendi under the directions of his master. The booklet is recorded in National Library of Bayezit under the number 2886 in the Veliyüddin Section.


Keywords


Naqshbandi Order, Murad-ı Buharî, Islamic Saints, Sufism, Tractate

Author : Mehmet ÜNAL -- Aliye YILMAZ
Number of pages: 1535-1549
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.6317
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