Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Ankara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Dergisi, cilt.64, sa.2, ss.359-405, 2023 (Scopus)
Ahmad b. Haydar al-Harīrī was a scholar who lived in the Ottoman geography during the 17th century. His treatise on the advent of the Mahdī, which he wrote towards the end of Sultan Ibrāhīm's reign, forms the central focus of this article. Preserved in the margin pages of a fatwā collection and currently with no other known copy, this treatise vividly reflects the individual and societal expectations regarding the emergence of the Mahdī during Ahmad b. Haydar’s lifetime. This expectation, in fact, stems from the belief in the onset of the apocalypse, which had reached its peak during the reign of Sultan Suleymān I due to the Hijri millennium but remained unfulfilled and was subsequently shifted to the following century. The content of the treatise is based on a combination of the views of two influential figures in Ottoman Mahdism literature, Muhy al-Dīn Ibn al-Arabī and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūtī. The article first explores the life of Ahmad b. Haydar and the attribution of the treatise to him. Subsequently, a comprehensive analysis of the treatise's content is conducted based on the information embedded within its lines. The treatise is presented along with its transliteration, translation, and the visual image of the original text.