Abstract
ÂBİDİN PASHA’ (1259/1843-1324/1906) COMMENTARY of MATHNAWI AND MYSTIC THOUGHTS
Abidin Pasha, who lived beetween 1943 and 1906, has been Minister of Foreign Affairs and the comissioner of Istanbul Stockexchange besides working as the major of Adana, Sivas, Ankara, Selanik and Bahr-i Sefid. He has a statesman who knew Arabic, Persian, Albanian, French and Greek.
Abidin Pasha, the Turkish scholar and mystic philosopher lived in 19th century, wrote seven books two of which are translation and commentary, due to having scientific, mysticism and literary talent.
Abidin Pasha’s sheikh is Nureddin Effendi who is a sheikh (head) of Khalwatiyya Tariqa. In fact we could not find anything about his life in sources.
In our study, we attemped to investigate Abidin Pasha’s most important work The Translation and Commentary of Sacred Poems (Tercüme ve Şerh-i Mesnevî-i Şerîf) that he translated and commented on the first volume of Mevlana’s Sacred Poems (Mathnawi) and focused on his mystic thoughts.
Keywords
Mysticism, Sect, Halvetiyye, Âbidin Paşa, Tercüme ve Şerh-i Mesnevî-i Şerîf.
