KEŞANLI ŞEYH SÜLEYMAN ZÂTÎ EFENDİ’NİN BAZI AKÂİD MES’ELELERİNE DÂİR DÜŞÜNCELERİ

Selami Şimşek

THE IDEAS OF SHEIKH SULAYMAN ZATI EFENDI FROM KESHAN ON SOME SUBJECTS OF AL-AQAID

Yıl 2005, Cilt: 5 Sayı: 3, 361 - 376, 31.12.2005

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In this article, it has been given brief informantion on the life of Sheikh Süleyman
Zati Efendi from Keshan who is one the sheikhs of Hakkıyye branch of Jalwatiyya order
in the eighteenth century and his life, works and sufism-theology relation. It has been
also attempted to review his ideas on some subjects of al-Aqaid such as “liability of
child, manifestation of God, metempsychosis, signs portending the approach of doomsday,
trumpet and blowing the trumpet, Mahdi and Jesus, Heaven and Gehenna.”