Преписи от ценно съчинение за историята на мистичните течения в Османската империя, съхранявани във фонда на Отдел „Ориенталски сбирки“
Copies of a valuable work on the history of mystical currents in the Ottoman Empire, kept in the fund of the Oriental Collections Department

Summary/Abstract: Two recently established transcripts of an interesting work in the Ottoman Turkish language, preserved in the manuscript collection of the Oriental Collections Department of the „St. St. Cyril and Methodius“ National Library are presented. It is known under the titles Hâce-i Cihân ve Netîce-i Cân, Menâkıb-ı Hâce-i Cihân, Kitâb Tévâ ‘if‘Aşere and Tevâ‘if-i‘ Aşere and contains authentic information about various mystical dervish groups and the various forms of mysticism in the Ottoman state in the 16th century. In some of the titles (Kitâb Tévâ ‘if‘Aşere) they are defined as „groups of extreme beliefs“. One of the transcripts was owned by Osman Pazvantoglu‘s mother, Rukiye Khatun, and probably by Pazvantoglu himself, and entered the Vidin library, respectively. Copies of the work are still stored in Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, London, Paris, Munich, Turin, Uppsala, Leiden.

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