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- Title
BESNİ KAZASINDA ALEVİ BEKTAŞİ OCAKLARI İLE İLGİLİ BULGULAR.
- Authors
ÖZLÜ, Zeynel
- Abstract
Besni district is an important place where the culture of Alawi-Bektashi is effective. The borders of this city in the Ottoman period were wider than today’s. A lot of villages located within the borders of some cities such as Adıyaman, Malatya, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş today, once were located within the border of Besni. Alawi-Bektashi culture in Besni was propogated by the first sufis who came to Anatolia. Today, generally Kesmetepe and Şambayat town and Köseceli, Tetirli, Akkuyu, Akpınar, Beşkoz, Burunçayır, Gümüşlü, Karalar, Konuklu, Çakallı (Çamlıca), Yukarısögütlü villages are the places where Alawi-Bektashi people still live. In the 16. century there was a place in the Besni called "Karkın". It has shown that this place was named possibly after the sufis of Dede Garkın, who came to this region and spreaded the Turkish-Islamic idea. As a matter of fact, some 16th century-Ottoman archive documents show that in that region, "Dede Garkınzadeler" tribe was effective, a group originating from Aleppo Turkoman and that they continued to be effective too in the 18th and 19th centruies. It is understood that families of Dede Garkın societies accepted Kazımi dervish lodge in Gaziantep as the place of pilgrimage and they visited that place sometimes. When it is thought that the lodge of Kazımi had its name from the 7th "Imam Musa’yı Kazım" and that Dede Garkın was appertained to the Seyyid Garip who was the descent of 7th Imam Musa’yı Kazım’s sons, it has been understood very well why the people appertained to Dede Garkın families in Besni accepted the dervish lodge in Gaziantep as the place of pligrimage. In a study, it is pointed out that some families in the Dede Kargın Sons Family Tree" chain has the surname of "Pektaş" and in the light of this information it can be understood that the Alawi families living in Beşkoz village may be the descents of Dede Garkın. It was found that the families of Dede Garkın society living in Besni, was camel raiser like the others living in some regions such as Erzincan, Elazığ, Malatya and Çorum. As a result, this fact can be related to the camel motifs which is of an important place in Alawi-Bektashi culture.
- Subjects
TURKEY; BEKTASHI; DERVISHES; MOSQUES; OTTOMAN Empire
- Publication
Turkish Culture & Haci Bektas Veli Research Quarterly, 2012, Issue 63, p247
- ISSN
1306-8253
- Publication type
Article