Kadîmî, the Dervish of Sersem Ali Harâbâtî Lodge

Kadîmî, the Dervish of Sersem Ali Harâbâtî Lodge

CAKIR, Mümine

The lodge of ruined father (giddy Ali grandfather) which is 40 kilometre to Uskup capital city of Macedonya is an important Bektashi’s lodge. This lodge has give education to many santon and many of those poets has tryed to explain their foreordinaiton in their poems. And Kadimi, the real name of Kadimi is Huseyin Zeki Baba, is one of those poets who was born in Tekirdag-Markara. He had given foreordination by Huseyin Zeki Baba in Đstanbul Karaagac Lodge and than he had been in the lodge of ruined father for a few months. And he had come to Istanbul and become a policeman. He had worked in many of police departments and although his life full of pain he tryed to do his best in his duty. During the national war he came to Anatolia and proceed his duty. And he had worked of other company and retired. Kadime has two works ; the first one is that A Memory of a Police Chief from Constitutionalism to Republic which is he describes his policeman’s life period and the second one is Bektashi poems and Foreordination which only has one remaning copy in the Ataturk Library Istanbul. This anthology is manuscript and hasn’t published yet. In his anthology there are many poem about “divan, foreordination, semai, dirge” as well as many Bektashi’s poems. And the subject of this notification is the life story of a Bektashi’s father Kadimi and works. Some poems are going to be explain here too.

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2010-06

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