Kendi Dilinden İsmâîl Hakkî Bursevî’nin Hayatı ve Şahsiyeti
İsmâîl Hakkî Bursevî’s Life and Personality from His Own Perspective

Summary/Abstract: One of the greatest sufis in the eigthteenth century, Ismail Hakki Bursevi was born in Aytos, which is today a city of Bulgaria in 1653 and died in Bursa in 1725. He had been impressed by Osman Fazli İlahi (d. 1691), who is a sheikh of the Jalwati order. Bursevi had completed his sufi training under İlahi’s care and had attentively performed the duty of guidance (irshad) which he had taken over from him throughout a half century within the area spanning from Rumelia to Bursa. Bursevi, who had formed his socio-cultural and spiritual character from the teachings of renowned sufis whose ideas had been alive in the Ottoman territories such as Ibn al Arabi (d. 1240), Rumi (d. 1273), Sadr al-Din Konawi (d. 1274), Sheikh Uftada (d. 1580) and Aziz Mahmud Hudai (d. 1628), had been one of the most versatile and productive authors in his time with over a hundred books in various fields, namely sufism, literature, tafsir, hadith and Islamic law. In this study, the story of Bursavi’s seventy-five-year long life is recounted in his own words.

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