Yesevî’de Bel Bağlamak
The Concept of Binding in Yesevi

Summary/Abstract: Turks began to recognize Islam about two centuries after the Hijra. In addition, since they found it suitable for their old beliefs and lifestyles, they adopted it with almost all its elements in a period of about two hundred years and came to Anatolia as the flagbearers of Islam. The architects of this process were undoubtedly the Turkish dervishes who emerged among the nomadic, newly converted Turkish, and who tried to convey the revelation as how to live a life in accordance with God's commands and hadiths. The method used by the Turkish dervishes to adopt the new religion paved the way for the development of new and different schools of Sufism. The first and most influential of these schools, which systematized in the process and formed their own institutions, is Yesevism led by Khodja Ahmed Yesevî. Khodja Ahmed created Divan-i Hikmet by melting the Turkish nation's own cultural resources in the crucible of Islam. His words of wisdom transcended ages and borders, and his influence reached from Central Asia to the interior of Europe. This study examines the Divān-i Hikmet of Khodja AhmEd Yesevi, the founder of the aforementioned school and the first person to consider when it comes to Turkish Sufism, which is the pioneering work of Turkish Sufism, from three different perspectives, on the axis of "binding".

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