Koyun Baba

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Koyun Baba († around 1468 ) was a Turkish calendar monk . The name literally means “sheep father” or “sheep saint”.

In popular tradition, Koyun Baba is regarded as the descendant of the prophet Mohammed and contemporary of the mystic Hacı Bektaş Veli . Nothing is known for certain about Koyun Baba's life. Possibly he was identical to the figure of Pamuk Baba ("cotton father"). However, various accounts of Koyun Baba have come down to us. One tradition is the Vilâyetnâme-i Koyun Baba , an anonymous work from the 16th century. According to one of these traditions, he got the name because he did not speak, but only bleated like a sheep five times a day at the time of the ritual Islamic prayer . According to the anonymous work Vilâyetnâme-i Koyun Baba from the 16th century, he came from Khorasan, made a pilgrimage to Mecca and traveled to Medina and Karbala before coming to Anatolia.

Sultan Bayezid II had a magnificent tomb and a Bektashi convent built in his honor in Osmancik , where he is said to have lived . This convent is mentioned in Evliya Çelebi's famous travelogue (“Seyahatname”) . The third volume says:

On the side of Kaiseriya, on Yılanlı Mountain, lies the Koyun Baba Convent. This is also a monastery of the Bektaşis. […] The convent of Koyun Baba Sultan is an exemplary dervish convent on Mount Yılanlı.

Bridges and quarters in Turkey still bear the name of Koyun Baba today. This includes the Koyun Baba Bridge in Osmancık (Çorum), which Sultan Bayezid II had built.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FW Hasluck: Christianity and Islam Under the Sultans - Vol I. Oxford 1929, p. 95
  2. ^ Franz Babinger in: EJ Brill's First Encyclopaedia Of Islam , 1913-1936, Leiden 1987, Vol. IV, keyword: Koyun Baba
  3. Korkut M. Bugday: Evliya Evliya Çelebi Anatoli trip. From the third volume of the Seyahatname. Leiden 1996, p. 125

literature

  • Franz Babinger in: EJ Brill's First Encyclopaedia Of Islam , 1913–1936, Leiden 1987, Vol. IV. Keyword: Koyun Baba