Sarı Saltık

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Sarı Saltık (also spelled Sarı Saltuk, "the blonde",

Sufi Muslims in the Balkans and parts of Middle East
as well as the mainstream Sunni Muslim community.

Historical figure

According to 14th-century Moroccan traveller

Ahmed ar-Rifa'i.[6] According to the 17th-century traveller Evliya Çelebi, his real name was Mehmed, and he was from Bukhara.[7] Early 20th-century historian Frederick Hasluck considered him a saint of a Tatar tribe from Crimea, which had brought his cult into Dobruja, from where it was spread by the Bektashis.[8]

According to the 15th-century

Tatar khan Berke, and after 1280 mentions him leading the nomads back to Dobruja.[9][10] After the death of Sari Saltik, some of the Turkomans returned to Anatolia, while other remained and became Christians,[11] becoming the ancestors of the Gagauz people.[12] This migration has characteristics of a folk epic destan, and its historicity is doubted by some scholars.[3]

Legacy in Babadag

The town of

Sultan Bayezid II during a military campaign, and, after reporting an important victory, he ordered the building of a religious and educational complex here (including a mausoleum to Saltik, finished in 1488), around which the town developed. According to Evliya Çelebi, a marble sarcophagus was found during the construction, with a Tatar inscription attesting it was the tomb of the saint. However this miraculous discovery is not mentioned in other sources talking about the sultan's passage through the town.[16]

Babadag became an important place of pilgrimage, visited in 1538 by

Russo-Turkish Wars.[17] A simple domed türbe was rebuilt over the grave of the saint in 1828.[18] The mausoleum in Babadag remains of relative importance even nowadays, and was recently renovated, being reinaugurated in 2007 by the then-Turkish prime-minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[19]

Legendary figure

In various

Saint Simeon, Saint Naum or Saint Spyridon. According to a local legend, his body was buried in seven coffins, in remote towns and villages within the lands of the Infidels.[7] Nowadays, alleged tombs (türbe) of his, are found all over the Balkans (Blagaj, Mostar, Krujë, Kaliakra) and western Anatolia (İznik).[20]

Notes

  1. ^ H.T. Norris (2006). Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe Sufi Brotherhoods and the Dialogue with Christianity and 'Heterodoxy'. p. 66.
  2. Yusuf an-Nabhani
    , Ğami Karamat'l-Awliya, quoted in Kiel, Ottoman urban development..., p. 286
  3. ^ a b Norris, Islam in the Balkans, pp. 146-47.
  4. ^ Wittek, Yazijioghlu 'Ali on the Christian Turks..., p. 658
  5. ^ Babinger, Sarı Saltuk Baba (Ṣari Ṣaltik Dede), p. 171
  6. ^ Kiel, Ottoman urban development..., p. 287
  7. ^ a b Babinger, Ṣari Ṣaltik Dede, p. 172
  8. Ahmed Yasevi
    for the conversion of Europe.

    — Hasluck, Christianity and Islam under the Sultans, p. 340
  9. ^ Wittek, Yazijioghlu 'Ali on the Christian Turks..., pp. 648-649, 659
  10. ^

    Yazicioğlu 'Alī, who wrote during the reign of Murad II (1421-51), says that 'Izz al-Dīn Kaykā'ūs II, who was threatened by his brother, found refuge with his followers at the court of the Byzantine emperor. He fought the latter's enemies, and as a reward the latter gave them the Dobrudja. The Turkish clans were summoned, and with Ṣarī Ṣaltiq (Sari Saltik) as their leader, they crossed over from Üsküdar and then proceeded to the Dobrudja.

    — Norris, Islam in the Balkans, pp. 146-47.
  11. ^ Wittek, Yazijioghlu 'Ali on the Christian Turks..., pp. 661-662
  12. ^ Wittek, Yazijioghlu 'Ali on the Christian Turks..., pp. 666
  13. ^ Other scholars have suggested Ibn Battuta's Baba Saltuq should be placed in the steppes of Southern Russia
  14. ^ Kiel, Ottoman urban development..., p. 284
  15. ^ Kiel, Ottoman urban development..., pp. 286-287
  16. ^ Kiel, Ottoman urban development..., pp. 290-292
  17. ^ Kiel, Ottoman urban development..., pp. 294-296
  18. ^ Kiel, Ottoman urban development..., p. 298
  19. ROMPRES (2007-10-27). "Premierul Republicii Turcia a vizitat Babadagul"
    . Ziua de Constanţa. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
  20. ^ "Sari Saltuk Tomb". ArchNet. Archived from the original on 2009-08-10. Retrieved 2008-04-09.

References

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