Šejh Ešrefoglu Rumi – turski pjesnik i mutesavvif petnaestog stoljeća
Sheikh Eshrefoğlu Rumi – Turkish Poet and Sufi of the Fifteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the personality of Eshrefoğlu Rumi, one of the important representatives of Turkish Sufi literature, who lived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Iznik and Bursa. The paper presents basic information about his life and spiritual path. Although Rumi was initially a member of the Bayrami Dervish order, whose founder is Sheikh Haji Bayram Vali, his sayri-suluk will later lead him to the Syrian city of Hama and the Sheikh of the Qadiri Tariqa Huseyn Hamavi. Thanks to this, Eshrefoğlu Rumi will become the eponym of the Ešrefi circle of the Qadiri tariqat. In addition to basic biographical information, the work of Eshrefoğlu Rumi and selected examples of poetry from Sheikh’s Divan are also presented. We can state that Rumi’s poetry is based on the Sufi ethical code, and, therefore, belongs more to the genre of tekke poetry than purely Divan poetry. Even though until now there was no writing about the Sheikh’s life in our language, his hymns were recited in Bosnian tekkes, as we learn from records in tekke’s collections.

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