Sheikh Bedreddin as a revolutionary mystic

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Sheikh Bedreddin as a revolutionary mystic refers to the historical Sufi scholar and jurist who became a symbol of radical social justice and egalitarian rebellion in late medieval Anatolia and the Balkans.

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instanceOf Islamic jurist
Ottoman-era scholar
Sufi mystic
human
revolutionary leader
theologian
alsoKnownAs Bedreddin of Simavna
Şeyh Bedreddin
linked to: Sheikh Bedreddin
associatedWithEvent 1416–1420 social-religious uprisings in Anatolia and the Balkans
Sheikh Bedreddin revolt
birthDate c. 1359
birthPlace Simavna
linked to: Simav

near Edirne
causeOfDeath execution by hanging
countryOfCitizenship Ottoman Empire
deathDate 1420
deathPlace Serres
ethnicOrigin Turkic
fieldOfWork Islamic law
Islamic theology
Sufi metaphysics
historicalContext Ottoman Interregnum and early 15th-century consolidation of Ottoman power
influenced Nazım Hikmet
linked to: Nâzim Hikmet

modern Turkish leftist intellectuals
influencedBy Ibn Arabi
Sufi metaphysical traditions
knownFor influencing later leftist and revolutionary thought in Turkey
leading a social-religious revolt against the Ottoman state
radical interpretations of Islamic justice
legacy icon of radical social justice in late medieval Anatolia and the Balkans
symbol of revolutionary mysticism in Turkish intellectual history
movement Islamic mysticism
name Bedreddin Mahmud bin İsrail
linked to: Sheikh Bedreddin
notableWork Câmiʿu’l-Fusûleyn
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occupation Sufi shaykh
jurist
qadi
theologian
philosophicalView monistic mysticism
social egalitarianism
politicalRole ideologue of a multi-ethnic rebellion in Rumelia
portrayedIn Nazım Hikmet’s epic poem "Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı"
reasonForExecution rebellion against the Ottoman sultan
religion Islam
religiousBranch Sufism
socialProgram advocacy of communal sharing of property
egalitarian redistribution of land
transcending religious and ethnic divisions in social organization

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Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı portrays Sheikh Bedreddin as a revolutionary mystic