Emanat-ı mukaddese
Emanat-ı mukaddese ( Arabic الأمانات المقدسة; Turkish Kutsal Emanetler ) is the name of Islamic relics from the time of the Prophet Mohammed , his immediate successors and from pre-Islamic times.
Sultan Selim I , called Yavuz ("the rigors"), brought some of the relics with him from his Egyptian campaign in 1517. Other pieces were collected later, including by Ömer Fahrettin Türkkan before Medina was lost to the Arab rebels in 1916. Other pieces were purchased. There are a total of 605 items.
The relics are kept in the former sultan's residence Topkapı Sarayı in Istanbul in the Mukaddes Emanetler Dairesi . The personal responsibility of the Ottoman sultans for the imperial relics was, in addition to their function as “guardians of the holy places” Mecca and Medina, an integral part of their legitimation as caliphs , a title that they only officially claimed at the end of the 18th century.
The most famous relics are:
- A golden shrine with the Prophet's mantle ( Hırka-i Şerif )
- The Prophet's whiskers ( Sakal-ı Şerif )
- The Standard of the Prophet ( Sancak-i Şerif )
- Bow and arrow of the Prophet ( Kavs-i Saâdet )
- The sword of the prophet and swords of important prophet comrades
- A letter from the prophet to a lying prophet
- Various footprints of the prophet
- The Seal of the Prophet ( Mühr-i Saâdet ), a copy of the Seal of Muhammad
- A copy of the Koran that the caliph Uthman ibn Affan is said to have read immediately before his murder
- A Chalice of the Prophet ( Kadeh-i Şerif )
- The Prophet's Staff ( Asa-i Nebevi )
- Prophet's Shoes ( Na'l-i Şerif )
- A stone pot of Abraham
- A sword of David
- Three sandals called başmak-ı şerif
The authenticity of the relics has not yet been investigated by neutral scientists and has therefore not been proven.
literature
- Hilmi Aydin: The Sacred Trusts. Pavilion of the Sacred Relics. Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul . The Light, Somerset NJ 2004, ISBN 1-932099-72-7 .