AHİ EBUBEKİR TOMB MINNATURE, THE FOUNDER OF AHİKÖY, IN MENTEŞE SANJAK Cover Image

MENTEŞE SANCAĞI’NDA AHİKÖY’ÜN KURUCUSU AHİ EBUBEKİR TÜRBESİ MİNYATÜRÜ
AHİ EBUBEKİR TOMB MINNATURE, THE FOUNDER OF AHİKÖY, IN MENTEŞE SANJAK

Author(s): Ömür Koç
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: miniature; nakkaş; tomb; legend; Ahi Ebubekir; akhism;

Summary/Abstract: Ahilik has a social-cultural structure with the feature of uniting the society and gathering it together. The Ahi community has ensured the organization of professional groups, cooperation, increasing the quality with the control mechanism, the development of the professions, the employment of the unemployed, the solution of the problems or problems that will arise and the connection with the managers in the place where they are located. With their hardworking, honest, benevolent, generous, and modest characteristics, Akhis saw moral work as a part of their worship, and desired goodness and abundance from their work. Ahi Evran established the Ahi organization in Anatolia and ensured its development and spread. It was Ahi Ebubekir and Ahi Sinan brothers who ensured the spread of the Ahi organization in the Menteşe Region and the establishment of Ahiköy. There is not enough information about the ahi brothers whose graves are found in Ahiköy (Yatağan). Turkish artists have decorated many manuscripts with their miniature designs that have the feature of documentation and have contributed to the narrative of the subjects. It aims to make new artistic designs and researches by visually promoting the miniature of Ahi Ebubekir Tomb, the founder of Ahiköy.

  • Issue Year: 13/2021
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 96-108
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish