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17-DEC-2004

Bursa at Celebi monument

There is a monument for Suleyman Çelebi. This is it. The Enc. Britt. writes: .. also called Süleyman Of Bursa one of the most famous early poets of Anatolia. Süleyman appears to have been the son of an Ottoman minister, Ahmed Paşa, who served in the court of Sultan Murad I. Süleyman became a leader of the Khalwatīyah dervish order and then imam (religious leader) to the court of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I (1389–1402). After Bayezid's death, Süleyman took the position of imam in a mosque in Bursa. Süleyman's most famous and only surviving work is the great religious poem Mevlûd-i Nebi, or Mevlûd-i Peygamberi (“Hymn on the Prophet's Nativity,” Eng. trans., 1943, reprint, 1957). The Mevlûd, as it is more commonly called, tells the story of the Prophet Muhammad's birth, life, and death; his miracles; and his journey to heaven. Written in simple 15th-century Ottoman Turkish style, it is a work inspired with religious fervour and is often recited at religious ceremonies, particularly funerals in present Turkey. It is chanted during the celebrations of the Prophet's birthday.

This grave monument looks older than it is: it was erected around 1950 on initiative of the then province governor
Haşim İşcan and the ‘Bursa Eski Eserleri Sevenler Derneği’ (Association of Bursa Antique Lovers). The design is from the architects İbrahim Sezen and Nurettin Öz. After completion, the mortal remains of Süleyman Çelebi were transferred to here, from the garden of the Great Mosque where he had been buried in 1422.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Bursa - Turquie’ – booklet of the Bursa Müzeleri, 1980 & Website of ‘lifeinbursa.com’.

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