OSMANLI TOPLUMUNDA SÛFÎLERİN RAMAZAN BAYRAMI ADET VE GELENEKLERİ
Ramadan Feast Customs and Traditions of Sûfîs in Ottoman Society

Summary/Abstract: A great deal of work has been done from different disciplines on the relations of the Sûfîs living in the Ottoman Empire with the state and society, their forms of organization, their religious and mystical understandings, and the administrative, architectural, social and economic structures of lodges and zawiyas. However, the number of studies on issues such as Ramadan and Eid-al-Fitr, kandil nights, Fridays, Ashura, sacrifice and funeral ceremonies, which are understood to contain extremely important information about the Sûfîs' world of belief and mind and their daily relations with the social environment, is much less. Sûfîs gave great importance to the month of Ramadan and fasting, ascribing deep external and internal meanings to the month of Ramadan. They spent the Eid-al-Fitr with intense worship and obedience, especially fasting, and saw it as this month's harvest. Although some methods and rules change from sect to sect, the meaning and nature of practices and traditions are similar and serve the same purposes. Therefore, Ramadan fests were celebrated in an atmosphere with dense spiritual excitement and joy through various customs and traditions such as Eid-eve, Eidprayer, exchange bairam greetings, shrine visits, exchanging gifts, sermon, chatter, worship, rituals and dhikr. This study aims to reveal the phenomenon of Eid al-Fitr, which is understood to be of great importance among the Sûfîs as well as in the entire Muslim society, its multifaceted reflections on their daily lives, the nature of the relations they developed with the public sphere and the social environment in these times, their customs that became a tradition and turned into a folklore. Although factors such as the nature of the subject and the lack of resources make it difficult to limit the study period, it is mainly based on the 19th century and later.

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