SEYYİD AHMED CEZBÎ’NİN KENZÜ’L-ESRÂR ADLI TARİKATNAMESİ
SEYYİD AHMED CEZBÎ’S TARİKATNAME CALLED KENZÜ’L-ESRÂR

Summary/Abstract: The sects, which are important elements of the Ottoman social and religious life, have developed their own rules, traditions and procedures. Sufi artists have written works that give information about these rules and traditions. In Turkish literature, such works are called tarikatnâme. One of the examples of tarikatnâme in our literature is Seyyid Ahmed Cezbî's work called Kenzü’l-esrâr. There are copies of this work, which is not mentioned by the sources, in the Berlin State Library and the Ankara National Library. In the work consisting of 457 couplets, verses, hadiths, prayers and dhikr are scattered among the couplets. Written in mesnevi verse, Kenzü’l-esrâr used the pattern of mefâîlün / mefâîlün / feûlün of aruz measure. Grandson of Muhammad Nurullah in the person of all the followers of Ahmed Cezbî dervish should have the qualifications, the worship styles of the members of the order of Bayramiyya, which prayers to read which prayers, the method of entering the ordeal, and so on. Sufism gave information about the rules and traditions. Kenzü’l-esrâr is also important in that it contains information about Ahmed Cezbi and the Himmetzâdeler family to which he belongs. In this article, Seyyid Ahmed Cezbî's work named Kenzü’l-esrâr was introduced, and the criticized text of the first fifty couplets of the work was shared with the scientific community.

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