Abstract
In the 13th century, the Yasawi dervishes, who came to Anatolia and were known as the Khorasan or Turkistan saints, played an important role in the Turkification and Islamization of the region. Geyikli Baba, Hacı Bektaş-ı Velî, Abdal Musa, Sarı Saltuk, Emirci Sultan, and Dediği Sultan are just a few of them. The zawiyas established by these settler dervishes, referred to as colonizers by Ömer Lütfi Barkan, formed the initial nucleus of a settlement model. In the century mentioned, the representatives of the Yasawi school in Konya and its surroundings were Dediği Sultan and his successors Handan Sultan, Ömer Baba, Ahmed Dede, and Yatağan Ahmed, who settled on Mount Melengürid. They carried the teachings they received from Yasawi Ata to Konya and its surroundings, influencing the socio-cultural and religious structure of the region. Dediği Sultan, who set out from Khorasan with the Turgud and Bayburd Turkmens, visited the Hijaz for a while and then came to Mount Melengürid. He advised his caliph, Yatağan Ahmed, to settle on Mount Melengürid, leaving him behind. He himself settled in the village of Mahmudhisar in the town of Ilgın. Yatağan Ahmed also established his own zawiya on Mount Melengürid, guiding the Turkmens on one hand and serving the pilgrims and travelers on the other. He developed close relations with Karamanid Mehmed Bey the Second and ensured that the hamlets of Suluçimen (Söbüçimen) and Kavak were endowed to the zawiya. After this, the hamlet of Suluçimen developed around the zawiya and became a village. Based on waqf, cadastral, tax, and population records, this study examines how the Suluçimen hamlet gradually evolved into the village of Yatağan. Drawing on the sources mentioned, it also reveals the village’s socio-economic structure and examines its population and economic development.
Keywords: Yesevî, Derviş, İskân, Suluçimen, Yatağan, Ahmed Mürsel, Dediği Sultan
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