Türkistan’da Kâdiriyye Izleri: Muhammed Sıddık Rüsdî’nin Menâkıb-ı Hazret-i Gavsü’l-A’zam Adlı Risalesi

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

The article is about manaqibnama (hagiographic book) of Abdulqadir al-Jilani written in Chagatai language by Muhammad Siddiq Rushdie, who lived in Eastern Turkestan in the 18th century. Muhammad Siddiq Rushdie, about whom there is very limited information, was born in Yarkand in Eastern Turkestan, approximately in 1706, and his life passed in a period of intense political and military difficulties. Siddiq Rushdie has two known works. One of them is Tadhkira-i Awliya-i Turki, and the other is Manaqib-i Hazrat-i Ghawth al-A’zam. Siddiq Rushdie, who knew Arabic and Persian at a level to understand and benefit from the basic texts, wrote both of his works in Chagatai Turkish. Moreover, his purpose in using this language is to introduce people who speak the Chagatai language the sufis, especially Abdulqadir al-Jilani. Siddiq Rushdie’s risala Manaqib-i Hazrat-i Ghawth al-A’zam is not only a hagiographic book but also a document that makes it possible to follow the traces of Qadiriyya in the Fergana Valley. In the article, the existence of Qadiriyya in Fergana Valley was evaluated in the context of the manaqibnama, and general information was given about the hagiographic books about Abdulqadir al-Jilani, thus determinations were made about the place of Siddiq Rushdie’s treatise in this literature. The aim of the article is to make Manaqib-i Hazrat-i Ghawth al-A’zam known, especially in Anatolia, by analyzing the copies, content, sources, style and method of it and to contribute to the the information about the history of the formation of Qadiriyya in Eastern Turkestan.