MENÂKIBÜ'L-ÂRIFÎN (EFLÂKÎ)

Name: MENÂKIBÜ'L-ÂRIFÎN (EFLÂKÎ)
Author: Aflâkî, Aflâkî Dede, Aflâkî Ahmed Ârifî, Ârifî (d. ? - ö. 761/1359-60)

Title	MENÂKIBÜ'L-ÂRIFÎN (EFLÂKÎ)
Author	Aflâkî, Aflâkî Dede, Aflâkî Ahmed Ârifî, Ârifî (d. ? - ö. 761/1359-60)
Publication Date:	01/11/2021
Subject	Dervish Lodge Literature - Mevlana's legend
Type	Book
Language	Persian
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Library:	Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works
Record ID	menakibu-l-arifin-eflaki
Date	754/1353
Notes	The work of Şemseddîn Ahmed el-Eflâkî el-Ârifî, one of the dervishes of the Mevlevi sect, containing extensive information about Mevlânâ Celâleddin-i Rûmî and his circle, the history of the Mevlevi sect and the period in which Mevlana lived. Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn (Legendas of the Wise Men) in Persian It is a prose text written in Turkish. It is among the important works of Turkish Sufi literature of the 13th and 14th centuries. The work contains information about the political, military, economic and social history of the Seljuks during the Mongol domination period. In addition, Eflaki is important in terms of reflecting the perspective of the Mevlevi sect, of which he was a follower, during the Mongol domination period. In his work, Ahmed Eflâkî tried to reveal the miracles of Mevlana and his family by including Mevlevi customs and ceremonies and mentioning the extraordinary events that Mevlevis are rumored to have experienced. Among the sources of Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn, which is a compiled work, are Sultan Veled's Veled-nâme (İbtidâ-nâme), Rebâb-nâme, İntihâ-nâme and Ma'ârif, Şemsi Tebrizî's work titled Makâlât-ı Şemseddîn-i Tebrizî, Ferîdûn b. Ahmed-i Sipehsâlâr's Risâle-i Sipehsâlâr be-Menâkıb-ı Hudâvendigâr, Ma'ârif-i Sultanü'l-Ulemâ Bahâeddîn Veled, Fîhi mâ Fîh, Mektûbât-ı Mevlânâ Celâleddîn, Mesnevî-i Ma'nevî and There are works such as Dîvân-ı Kebîr, and it is understood that Eflâkî benefited greatly from them (Şat 2018: 3). The reason why the work, written in a very fluent and simple Persian language, has been admired and read by many people for centuries is due to its good narrative power (Yazıcı 2004: 114). Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn, which is the author's thirty-six-year work and compilation, is a work in which the genealogies of Mevlana and the members of his sect are told. Eflâkî completed the book, which he first started in 718/1318 by the order of Ulu Ârif Çelebi, within a year and wrote Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn and Merâtibü'l-Kâşifîn; He added some information he obtained in 754/1353 and named the work he wrote for the second time, Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîna. The book is a compilation, except for the sections on Eflâkî's manners and knowledge (Yazıcı 2004: 114). In Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn, as a requirement of the menakıbname genre, miracles are given a lot of place. Fuat Köprülü states that "Although the hagiographies depicting and narrating the miracles of the Mevlevi elders were written for the purpose of making propaganda for the sect, they are not completely separated from historical reality and they reflect the social environment in which the authors lived in an accurate and very vivid way. He states that, unlike the Bektashi hagiography, the historical values of the Mevlevi hagiography should not be doubted." (Köprülü 1943: 7/422). The content of the work, which focuses on compilation, is composed in ten chapters, after a short introduction. In the first part, Sultanü'l-Ulemâ Bahâeddîn Veled, who is Mevlânâ's father, in the second part, Mevlânâ's Sheikh Burhâneddîn Muhakkık-ı Tirmîzî, known as Seyyid-i Sırdan, in the third part, Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî, in the fourth part, Mevlânâ's confidant Şemseddîn-i Tebrîzî, the Mevlevi caliph Sheikh Selahaddîn (Zerkûb of Konya) in the fifth chapter, Hüsameddîn Çelebi, the Mevlevi caliph and who contributed to the writing of Mesnevî, in the sixth chapter, Mevlana's son Sultan Veled in the seventh chapter, Sultan Veled's son Çelebi Emîr in the eighth chapter. In the ninth chapter, information is given about Arif, Sultan Veled's son Çelebi Emîr Âbid, and in the tenth chapter, information is given about the genealogy of Mevlana (Yazıcı 2004: 29/115; Yazıcı 1964-1966: C. 1-2; Gölpınarlı 1952: 32). Some of the events Eflâkî describes in Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn are based on his own observations. In other chapters, he mostly included quotes by saying "Story" and "They say", and quotes by saying "It was reported again", and conveyed to the reader the events (semai) that he did not see personally, with hearsay information. Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn also has a special importance in terms of reflecting the Sufi customs and ceremonies of the period. In addition, the work contains very interesting records about the architectural history, carpet weaving, music and fine arts of the region. There are also opinions that Mevlana's fame spread throughout Anatolia, as a result of some events and as a result of those who denied Mevlana and his sect, breaking their zunnars (girdles) and becoming disciples in the face of Mevlana's miracles (Şat 2018: 4, 9-10). It was published in India under the name Sevânih-i Ömrî-i Hazret-i Mevlânâ Rûmî Müsemmâ be-Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn, using a manuscript copy. The second scientific publication of the book was made in Turkey by Tahsin Yazıcı, using many manuscripts (1964-1966). Abdülvehhâb es-Sabûnî rewrote the work in Persian with the title Sevâkıbü'l-Menâkı, with additions and deletions. The book has translations into Turkish. Some of these are missing. The first complete translation of the text into Turkish that could be identified was made by Mevlevi Zahid bin Arif in 1400-01. This translation, titled Mahzenü'l-Esrâ, is located today in the Süleymaniye Library, number A 3456. In this translation made in plain language, some parts that were difficult to understand were omitted, and some poems were translated into prose (Temizel 2007: 97). The second is the verse translation titled Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ by Lokmânî Dede, who is the tomb of Mevlânâ in Konya. In 1504, Sultan II. The translation determined to have been made for Bayezid also includes some additions and changes (Nizam 2010: I/7-8). Gevrekzâde Hasan's work titled Tercüme-i Menâkıbu'l-Ârifîna, completed in 1795, is the complete translation of the book, except for the verse parts. One of the translations is Abdülbâkî Nâsır Dede's work called Tercüme-i Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîna, also known as Tercüme-i Eflâkî, which he started in 1793 and finished in 1797. The manuscript copy is registered in Suleymaniye Library, Nafiz Pasha, number 1126. Tahsin Yazıcı evaluated the work in every aspect and analyzed and criticized the text and translated Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn into Turkish. This translation was published by the Turkish Historical Society in 1959, 1961, 1976, by the Ministry of National Education in 1954, 1964, 1966, 1989, 2001, by the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports in 1986, by Hürriyet Newspaper in 1973, by Remzi Kitabevi in 1987, and by Kabalcı Publications in 2006 (Ayan 2003: 79-84).Clément Huart translated Menâkıbü’l-Ârifîn into French and published it in two volumes in Paris under the name Les Saints des Derviches Tourneurs between 1918-1922. James William Redhouse also translated a part of the work into English in London in 1881 (Şeşen 1998: 282). For Nasir's biography, see. “Eflâkî, Eflâkî Dede, Eflâkî Ahmed Ârifî, Ârifî”.Turkish Literature Names Dictionary.
ISBN	978-9944-237-87-1
Madde Yazarı	Doç. Dr. Mehmet Ünal
Alfabesi	Arap
Yapısı	Manzum-Mensur
Niteliği	Telif
Kaynakça	Ayan, Gönül (2003). “Sevakıb-ı Menakıb ve Mevlana”.III. Uluslararası Mevlâna Kongresi.Konya: Selçuk Üniversitesi Matbaası. 79-84. Çelik, Süheyla (2011).Ariflerin Menkıbeleri’ndeki “Kul ve Mürid” Olma İle İlgili Rivayetlerin Tahlili,Yayımlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi. Niğde: Niğde Üniversitesi. Eyice, Semavi (1998). "Huart, Clément Imbault".İslâm Ansiklopedisi.C. 18. İstanbul: TDV Yay. 262-264. Gölpınarlı, Abdülbaki (1952).Mevlanâ Celâleddin Hayatı, Felsefesi, Eserleri ve Eserlerinden Seçmeler.Ankara: İnkılap Kitabevi. Haral, Hesna (2014).Osmanlı Minyatüründe Mevlânâ’nın Yaşam Öyküsü: Menâkıbu’l-Ârifîn ve Tercüme-i Sevâkıb-ı Menâkıb Nüshaları.Doktora Tezi. İstanbul: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi. Köprülü, Fuat (1943). “Anadolu Selçuklu Tarihi’nin Yerli Kaynakları”.TTK Belleten.7 (25-26-27): 422. Nizam, Betül Sinan (2010).Kemal Ahmed Dede’s Verse Narrative Tercüme-i Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ A Verse Version in the Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn Tradition. C. I. Cambridge: Harvard University The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Şat, Seda (2018).Ahmed Eflâkî’nin Menâkıbü’l-Ârifîn Adlı Eserine Göre Selçuklu Türkiyesi’nde Türkler/Türkmenler, Moğollar, Ahîler ve Mevlevîler.Yayımlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi. Erzincan: Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi Şeşen, Ramazan (1998).Müslümanlarda Tarih-Coğrafya Yazıcılığı.İstanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültürünü Araştırma Vakfı Yay. Temizel, Ali (2007). “Mevlânâ’nın Hayat Hikayesi ile İlgili Eski Harfli Türkçe Eserler”.Mevlânâ Araştırmaları I.(ed. A. Karaismailoğlu).Ankara: Akçağ Yay. 96-120. Yazıcı, Tahsin (2004). “Menâkıbu’l Ârifîn”.İslâm Ansiklopedisi.C. 29. İstanbul: TDV Yay. 114-115. Yazıcı, Tahsin (1973).Âriflerin Menkıbeleri, C. I. İstanbul: Hürriyet Yayınevi. Yazıcı, Tahsin (1973).Âriflerin Menkıbeleri. C. II. İstanbul: Hürriyet Yayınevi.
Atıf Bilgileri	Ünal, Mehmet. "MENÂKIBÜ’L-ÂRİFÎN (EFLÂKÎ)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/menakibu-l-arifin-eflaki. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].

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MENÂKIBÜ'L-ÂRIFÎN (EFLÂKÎ)

Author Aflâkî, Aflâkî Dede, Aflâkî Ahmed Ârifî, Ârifî (d. ? - ö. 761/1359-60)

Publication Date 01/11/2021

Subject Dervish Lodge Literature - Mevlana's legend

Type Book

Language Persian

Digital No

Manuscript No

Library Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works

Record ID menakibu-l-arifin-eflaki

Date 754/1353

Notes The work of Şemseddîn Ahmed el-Eflâkî el-Ârifî, one of the dervishes of the Mevlevi sect, containing extensive information about Mevlânâ Celâleddin-i Rûmî and his circle, the history of the Mevlevi sect and the period in which Mevlana lived. Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn (Legendas of the Wise Men) in Persian It is a prose text written in Turkish. It is among the important works of Turkish Sufi literature of the 13th and 14th centuries. The work contains information about the political, military, economic and social history of the Seljuks during the Mongol domination period. In addition, Eflaki is important in terms of reflecting the perspective of the Mevlevi sect, of which he was a follower, during the Mongol domination period. In his work, Ahmed Eflâkî tried to reveal the miracles of Mevlana and his family by including Mevlevi customs and ceremonies and mentioning the extraordinary events that Mevlevis are rumored to have experienced. Among the sources of Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn, which is a compiled work, are Sultan Veled's Veled-nâme (İbtidâ-nâme), Rebâb-nâme, İntihâ-nâme and Ma'ârif, Şemsi Tebrizî's work titled Makâlât-ı Şemseddîn-i Tebrizî, Ferîdûn b. Ahmed-i Sipehsâlâr's Risâle-i Sipehsâlâr be-Menâkıb-ı Hudâvendigâr, Ma'ârif-i Sultanü'l-Ulemâ Bahâeddîn Veled, Fîhi mâ Fîh, Mektûbât-ı Mevlânâ Celâleddîn, Mesnevî-i Ma'nevî and There are works such as Dîvân-ı Kebîr, and it is understood that Eflâkî benefited greatly from them (Şat 2018: 3). The reason why the work, written in a very fluent and simple Persian language, has been admired and read by many people for centuries is due to its good narrative power (Yazıcı 2004: 114). Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn, which is the author's thirty-six-year work and compilation, is a work in which the genealogies of Mevlana and the members of his sect are told. Eflâkî completed the book, which he first started in 718/1318 by the order of Ulu Ârif Çelebi, within a year and wrote Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn and Merâtibü'l-Kâşifîn; He added some information he obtained in 754/1353 and named the work he wrote for the second time, Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîna. The book is a compilation, except for the sections on Eflâkî's manners and knowledge (Yazıcı 2004: 114). In Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn, as a requirement of the menakıbname genre, miracles are given a lot of place. Fuat Köprülü states that "Although the hagiographies depicting and narrating the miracles of the Mevlevi elders were written for the purpose of making propaganda for the sect, they are not completely separated from historical reality and they reflect the social environment in which the authors lived in an accurate and very vivid way. He states that, unlike the Bektashi hagiography, the historical values of the Mevlevi hagiography should not be doubted." (Köprülü 1943: 7/422). The content of the work, which focuses on compilation, is composed in ten chapters, after a short introduction. In the first part, Sultanü'l-Ulemâ Bahâeddîn Veled, who is Mevlânâ's father, in the second part, Mevlânâ's Sheikh Burhâneddîn Muhakkık-ı Tirmîzî, known as Seyyid-i Sırdan, in the third part, Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî, in the fourth part, Mevlânâ's confidant Şemseddîn-i Tebrîzî, the Mevlevi caliph Sheikh Selahaddîn (Zerkûb of Konya) in the fifth chapter, Hüsameddîn Çelebi, the Mevlevi caliph and who contributed to the writing of Mesnevî, in the sixth chapter, Mevlana's son Sultan Veled in the seventh chapter, Sultan Veled's son Çelebi Emîr in the eighth chapter. In the ninth chapter, information is given about Arif, Sultan Veled's son Çelebi Emîr Âbid, and in the tenth chapter, information is given about the genealogy of Mevlana (Yazıcı 2004: 29/115; Yazıcı 1964-1966: C. 1-2; Gölpınarlı 1952: 32). Some of the events Eflâkî describes in Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn are based on his own observations. In other chapters, he mostly included quotes by saying "Story" and "They say", and quotes by saying "It was reported again", and conveyed to the reader the events (semai) that he did not see personally, with hearsay information. Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn also has a special importance in terms of reflecting the Sufi customs and ceremonies of the period. In addition, the work contains very interesting records about the architectural history, carpet weaving, music and fine arts of the region. There are also opinions that Mevlana's fame spread throughout Anatolia, as a result of some events and as a result of those who denied Mevlana and his sect, breaking their zunnars (girdles) and becoming disciples in the face of Mevlana's miracles (Şat 2018: 4, 9-10). It was published in India under the name Sevânih-i Ömrî-i Hazret-i Mevlânâ Rûmî Müsemmâ be-Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn, using a manuscript copy. The second scientific publication of the book was made in Turkey by Tahsin Yazıcı, using many manuscripts (1964-1966). Abdülvehhâb es-Sabûnî rewrote the work in Persian with the title Sevâkıbü'l-Menâkı, with additions and deletions. The book has translations into Turkish. Some of these are missing. The first complete translation of the text into Turkish that could be identified was made by Mevlevi Zahid bin Arif in 1400-01. This translation, titled Mahzenü'l-Esrâ, is located today in the Süleymaniye Library, number A 3456. In this translation made in plain language, some parts that were difficult to understand were omitted, and some poems were translated into prose (Temizel 2007: 97). The second is the verse translation titled Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ by Lokmânî Dede, who is the tomb of Mevlânâ in Konya. In 1504, Sultan II. The translation determined to have been made for Bayezid also includes some additions and changes (Nizam 2010: I/7-8). Gevrekzâde Hasan's work titled Tercüme-i Menâkıbu'l-Ârifîna, completed in 1795, is the complete translation of the book, except for the verse parts. One of the translations is Abdülbâkî Nâsır Dede's work called Tercüme-i Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîna, also known as Tercüme-i Eflâkî, which he started in 1793 and finished in 1797. The manuscript copy is registered in Suleymaniye Library, Nafiz Pasha, number 1126. Tahsin Yazıcı evaluated the work in every aspect and analyzed and criticized the text and translated Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn into Turkish. This translation was published by the Turkish Historical Society in 1959, 1961, 1976, by the Ministry of National Education in 1954, 1964, 1966, 1989, 2001, by the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports in 1986, by Hürriyet Newspaper in 1973, by Remzi Kitabevi in 1987, and by Kabalcı Publications in 2006 (Ayan 2003: 79-84).Clément Huart translated Menâkıbü’l-Ârifîn into French and published it in two volumes in Paris under the name Les Saints des Derviches Tourneurs between 1918-1922. James William Redhouse also translated a part of the work into English in London in 1881 (Şeşen 1998: 282). For Nasir's biography, see. “Eflâkî, Eflâkî Dede, Eflâkî Ahmed Ârifî, Ârifî”.Turkish Literature Names Dictionary.

ISBN 978-9944-237-87-1

Madde Yazarı Doç. Dr. Mehmet Ünal

Alfabesi Arap

Yapısı Manzum-Mensur

Niteliği Telif

Kaynakça Ayan, Gönül (2003). “Sevakıb-ı Menakıb ve Mevlana”.III. Uluslararası Mevlâna Kongresi.Konya: Selçuk Üniversitesi Matbaası. 79-84. Çelik, Süheyla (2011).Ariflerin Menkıbeleri’ndeki “Kul ve Mürid” Olma İle İlgili Rivayetlerin Tahlili,Yayımlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi. Niğde: Niğde Üniversitesi. Eyice, Semavi (1998). "Huart, Clément Imbault".İslâm Ansiklopedisi.C. 18. İstanbul: TDV Yay. 262-264. Gölpınarlı, Abdülbaki (1952).Mevlanâ Celâleddin Hayatı, Felsefesi, Eserleri ve Eserlerinden Seçmeler.Ankara: İnkılap Kitabevi. Haral, Hesna (2014).Osmanlı Minyatüründe Mevlânâ’nın Yaşam Öyküsü: Menâkıbu’l-Ârifîn ve Tercüme-i Sevâkıb-ı Menâkıb Nüshaları.Doktora Tezi. İstanbul: Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi. Köprülü, Fuat (1943). “Anadolu Selçuklu Tarihi’nin Yerli Kaynakları”.TTK Belleten.7 (25-26-27): 422. Nizam, Betül Sinan (2010).Kemal Ahmed Dede’s Verse Narrative Tercüme-i Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ A Verse Version in the Menâkıbü'l-Ârifîn Tradition. C. I. Cambridge: Harvard University The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Şat, Seda (2018).Ahmed Eflâkî’nin Menâkıbü’l-Ârifîn Adlı Eserine Göre Selçuklu Türkiyesi’nde Türkler/Türkmenler, Moğollar, Ahîler ve Mevlevîler.Yayımlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi. Erzincan: Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi Şeşen, Ramazan (1998).Müslümanlarda Tarih-Coğrafya Yazıcılığı.İstanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültürünü Araştırma Vakfı Yay. Temizel, Ali (2007). “Mevlânâ’nın Hayat Hikayesi ile İlgili Eski Harfli Türkçe Eserler”.Mevlânâ Araştırmaları I.(ed. A. Karaismailoğlu).Ankara: Akçağ Yay. 96-120. Yazıcı, Tahsin (2004). “Menâkıbu’l Ârifîn”.İslâm Ansiklopedisi.C. 29. İstanbul: TDV Yay. 114-115. Yazıcı, Tahsin (1973).Âriflerin Menkıbeleri, C. I. İstanbul: Hürriyet Yayınevi. Yazıcı, Tahsin (1973).Âriflerin Menkıbeleri. C. II. İstanbul: Hürriyet Yayınevi.

Atıf Bilgileri Ünal, Mehmet. "MENÂKIBÜ’L-ÂRİFÎN (EFLÂKÎ)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/menakibu-l-arifin-eflaki. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].