Gül Baba

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Gül Baba
Statue of Gül Baba in front of his türbe (mausoleum) in Budapest District II
BornMerzifon (Turkey) Edit this on Wikidata
Died1541
Buda (Hungary) Edit this on Wikidata

Gül Baba (died 1541), also known as Jafer, was an

Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent who took part in a number of campaigns in Europe from the reign of Mehmed II
onwards.

Biography

A native of

Sivas, Anatolia),[1] he was the son of Kutb’ül Arifin Veli’üddin İbn Yalınkılıç. In Hungary, Gül Baba is known as the "Father of Roses," a literal translation of the meaning of his names in Turkish; he is said to have introduced the flower to the country. However, this is likely a misunderstanding of the metaphorical meaning of the Turkish name, which referred to the dervish's status derived from his deep mystical knowledge of Allah
. Roses, wild and domesticated, were already in Hungary by the time of the Ottoman invasion. The name could also be a corruption of Kel Baba, meaning "Bald Father".

Gül Baba is thought to have died in

Trebizond Vilayet
.

Tomb

The tomb of Gül Baba in Budapest
Main article: Tomb of Gül Baba

Gül Baba's octagonal tomb (

Roman Catholic chapel by the Jesuits
, who renamed it "St Joseph's Chapel".

The land later came under the ownership of János Wagner, who maintained the site and allowed access to Muslim pilgrims coming from the Ottoman Empire (see Islam in Hungary). In 1885, the Ottoman government commissioned a Hungarian engineer to restore the tomb and, when work was completed in 1914, it was declared a national monument. The site was restored again in the 1960s and in the 1990s and is now the property of the Republic of Turkey. A large-scale renovation was completed in October 2018, when the site was inaugurated by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 90-04-09796-1
    , p. 181.
  2. ISBN 0-415-06084-2
    , p. 112.

External links

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