مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - THE TERM OF CILEHANE (SUFFERING HOUSE) IN RELIGION AND SUFISM CULTURE AND GELIBOLU CILEHANE IN THE SENSE OF SPACE CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract :

It is seen that dervishes belonging to various sects in Sufism culture which is one of the important values of Anatolia-Islam tradition suffer in order to be close to God, even together with God, understand and internalize necessities of religion better. The ritual of suffering exists similarly in other religions and in communities living throughout the world. The act of suffering would be understood better in the sense of Sufism by analysing spaces that dervishes use in order to suffer. Since there are few written scientific resources about çilehane and their space characteristics which have an important place in Anatolia culture and Islam among religious places, in this study it was aimed to analyse space characteristics of çilehane considering Gelibolu Çilehane and compose a written resource on this issue. It was aimed through survey study to document this çilehane which is the place where Yazıcıoğlu Mehmed Efendi, the author of famous work “Muhammediye”, suffered. Moreover in this study, some of the çilehanes in Turkey which are important in the sense of both religion and Sufism and their space characteristics were analysed and characteristics of Gelibolu Çilehane were emphasized. For this purpose the çilehanes of Hacı Bayram Velî Mosque, Somuncu Baba, Hacı Bektaş Velî and Yunus Emre were investigated through written sources. Gallipoli Çilehane was researched in Gallipoli and documentation work was done. In the sense of transforming a natural formation into a suffering place by changing with the hand of man, the relation of suffering and its space in Sufism culture would be understood better by analysing this example.