Suyolcu-zâde Ahmed-i Nehrî Dîvân’ında Aşk
Suyolcu-zâde Ahmed-i Nehrî’s Consideration of Exıstence

Summary/Abstract: Ahmed-i Nehrî Efendi, known as Suyolcu-zāde, is a sufi who carried the message of Ismāil Rūmī (d. 1041/1631), who is considered the second patriarch of the Qadiriyyah sect, to Tekirdağ. Ahmed-i Nehrī is a prominent figure of the Suyolcu family, which was active in guiding (people) in Tekirdağ for a long time, and he stood out with his talent for poetry and mosque-centered services. He established his influence in society with the action steps he shaped through his vision of existence. The transfers of Ahmed-i Nehrî, who expresses his vision of existence effectively in his Dîvân, his only work that has survived to the present day, about the world of thought and heart, it is important because it shows the influence of Qadiriyya pioneers, especially Abdülkādīr el-Geylānī (d. 561/1166) and Ismāil-i Rūmī, in the region. Ahmed Nehrī, Hātem et-Tāyī (d. ?), İbrāhīm b. Edhem (d. 161/778 [?]), Bāyezīd el-Bistāmī (d. 234/848 [?]), Hallāc el-Mansūr (d. 309/922), İbn el-Arabī (d. 638/1240) also expressed the acceptances of many sufi figures such as Mevlānā (d. 672/1273) and Nesīmī (d. 820/1417 [?]) based on unity of existence. In the article, Ahmed Nehrî’s discourses on the concept of knowledge, his view on love, and viewing existence from the window of unity, which are the three pillars of his world of thought centered on unity of existence, are discussed. In the article centered on Ahmed Nehrî’s Dîvân, some of the names that influenced him and his perspective on the basic concepts of the idea of unity of existence were drawn.

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