Emir Sultan’ın Nurbahşîliği Hakkında Kaynakların Tenkidi

There are great leaders who shaped our history and have a place in our spiritual memory. Even though centuries have passed, their effects are still alive. One of them is Amīr Sultān (d. 833/1429). He is one of the leading figures of sūfīsm life in the founding period of the Ottoman Empire. The life of Amīr Sultān, who was the son-in-law of Yildirim Bāyezīd (1389- 1403) and who guided the lives of the people as well as the state officials with the lodge he founded, is woven with legends. The scarcity of historical information about him has caused some classical biographers and modern researchers to give different information about his sūfī lineage. The most important of these is that he came to Anatolia as a Nurbakhshī sheikh and spread this branch. However, the fact that Nurbakhshiyya and Muhammad Nurbakhsh (d. 869/1464), the leader of this movement, are not well known has led the authors in question to make historical mistakes about which of the Kubraviyya, Naqshibandiyya and Khalvatiyya that Amīr Sultān was affiliated with. In this article, using the source criticism method, first of all, the hagiographies written about Amīr Sultān will be reviewed, and then, by consulting the biographers who provide information about him, a mystical lineage of the sheikh will be tried to be revealed. The information provided by the sources will be filtered through historical and mystical criticism, and evaluations will be made on the reasons why these discourses may have emerged. At the end of the article, the efforts of Lutfullāh Afandī (d. 894/1490), one of the sheikhs of Amīr Sultān Dervish Lodge, to rebuild the sect under the name "Bukhariyya" will be included.