Abstract :
Estate records are the first hand sources of Ottoman’s social and cultural history. These sources provide detailed information about the social structure which is related to. In this context, in the estates of Bektashian dervishes, except the things told verbally, there is tangible data about members of the family, life styles, clothing, the stuff in kitchen and bathroom, fabrics of home, economic level of residents (poor, average, rich, etc.). The estate we surveyed belonged to Haydar Baba ibni Halil bin Abdullah which was assigned to serve in the 99. Battalion of Janissary. On a journey from İstanbul to Anatolia, Haydar Baba died in Menzilhane of Bolu in 1822. He was single and his parents had passed away. Haydar Baba was a beadsman. He Along with the mission of praying for peace and achievements of the Ottoman army, twelve gardening items found in his estate, make us to estimate that he was doing some gardening in Janissary. The most valuable thing in the estate of Haydar Baba is the Holy Quran. Except for the holy Quran, a book named “Selâtîn-i Mutahhar” (Decent Sultans), -the book was probably about dignitary Bektashian people- was found as well. In the estate of Haydar Baba, it is found a an item called “binlik” was found, “binlik” was a kind of threelitter wine bottle which was drank up at once by the alcoholic. It gives the impression that he used to drink sometimes. Nevertheless, Haydar Baba seemed a sensitive one on religion. That the fact that there was a Holy Quran in his estate, and, he left a testament called “ıskat-ı salat” which requested people left behind to give poor people some money because of the unperformed prayings of Haydar, indicate his feelings of religion. With the property of 760,5 “kurus and 62 pare, Haydar Baba had almost an average middle class life style in his time. That there was nothing valuable except for a watch in his house, and that he used to sleep in a unpretentious mattress instead of a bed which is made of cotton or wool point out that he lived a simple life in the principles of the Turkish idiom“ Bir lokma bir hırka” which means “living on very little”.
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Bektashian father , estate , Turkish culture , clothing , fabrics
