Seyid Yahya Bakuvi ( az, Seyid Yəhya Bakuvi) – was a 15th-century Azerbaijani scientist and philosopher.M. Ə. Ayni – Seyid Yəhya Şirvani//Maarif və Mədəniyyət məcmuəsi, N6, Bakı, 1923S. Mümtaz – Seyid Yəhya, AMEA Əİ Fondu: 24/345A. A. Seyidzade – Seyid Yaxya Bakuvi, Salman Mümtaz adına ƏİA Fondu:47, saxlama vahidi97, səh 67B. G. Martin – A short history of the Khalweti order of Derwishes? California: Nikki k. Riddie, 1975F. D. Long – Khalwetiyya, IV, 1991V. Minorskiy – The Turks İran and the Caucasus in the middle ages, London, 1978

Life

Seyid Yahya Bakuvi was born in

Shamakhi Shamakhi ( az, Şamaxı, ) is a city in Azerbaijan and the administrative centre of the Shamakhi District. The city's estimated population was 31,704. It is famous for its traditional dancers, the Shamakhi Dancers, and also for perhaps giving it ...

into a rich family in 1403. Seyid Yahya Bakuvi lived in the 15th century, in

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

in the palace of

Khalilullah I Khalilullah I ( fa, خلیل الله یکم), also known as Sultan-Khalil (), was the Shirvanshah (king of Shirvan) from 1418 to 1465. He was the son and successor of Ibrahim I (). He was succeeded by his son Farrukh Yasar. Reign After the dea ...

.M. Rıhtım – Seyid Yəhya Bakuvi və Xəlvətilik, Bakı, 2006S.S. Mustakimzde – Şerhi Virdü – Settar, SK: Pertev Paşa, N611 In his youth he was engaged in

Sufism Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, r ...

, and was a follower of the eminent Sheikh Sadr ad-Din al Khalvati, leader of the tariqa’s Shirvan. After the sheikh’s death, Seyid Yahya quarreled with a student Pirizade about who would lead Khalvati’s sect; he then left Shamakhi to move to Baku. In Baku he settled in the palace of Khalilullah I, where he enjoyed wide popularity as a philosopher and scientist. Soon the number of his followers (in countries of the

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, too) exceeded ten thousand people.

Death

According to one source, the date of Bakuvi’s death was 862 AH (1457), to another it was 868 AH (1463). There is a

Mausoleum of Seyid Yahya Bakuvi The Mausoleum of Seyid Yahya Bakuvi was built in approximately 1457–1458, in Baku, Azerbaijan. The mausoleum is located in the centre of the middle yard of the Palace of the Shirvanshahs. Among local people it is known as the mausoleum of “derv ...

in the Shirvanshahs’ Palace complex. The date on that building is the date of mausoleum's construction.

Bakuvi’s works

15 works of Seyid Yahya Bakuvi have been saved up to date. His works have a sufistic and mystic character. They are kept in cities of

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(“Muradiye” library),

Konya Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...

, Manisa. Seyid Yahya wrote such philosophic treatises as “Sharkh-I Gulshani-raz”(“Comments to flower garden of secrets”), “Asrar at-Talibin” (“Secrets of searchers of the truth”), “Symbolism of signs”, “Comments to the Safavids dynasty”, “Secrets of spirits” and others, penetrated through religious and mystic ideas which are valuable sources in the sphere of investigation of philosophy, astronomy and math.

References

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