Aziz Mahmud Hudayi (1541–1628), (b. Şereflikoçhisar, d.

Üsküdar Üsküdar () is a large and densely populated district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered to the north by Beykoz, to the east by Ümraniye, to the southeast by Ataşehir and to the south by Kadıköy; ...

), is amongst the most famous Sufi

Muslim saint A wali (''wali'' ar, وَلِيّ, '; plural , '), the Arabic word which has been variously translated "master", "authority", "custodian", "protector", is most commonly used by Muslims to indicate an Islamic saint, otherwise referred to by the ...

s of the

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. He was the third and last husband of Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan, granddaughter of Sultan

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ ...

. He was a mystic,

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, composer,

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, statesman and

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Life

Born of Hashemite ancestry in Şereflikoçhisar in Central Anatolia, Aziz Mahmud Hudayi completed his studies in a

medrese Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , pl. , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary instruction or higher learning. The word is variously transliterated '' ...

in Istanbul. He became the Sheikh of Sultan Ahmed I who constructed the famous Blue Mosque and so read the first Friday prayer there on its opening. He was also especially respected by Sultan Murad III. He is a descendant of Junayd of Baghdad, and, as a descendant of Husayn ibn 'Ali, can be called a

sayyid ''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali, sons of Muhamma ...

. He founded the

Jelveti Celvetîyye Tariqat or Jelveti is a Sufi order that was founded by ''"Akbıyık Sultan"'', a murid of Haji Bayram Veli in Bursa as ''"The tariqat of Bayramiyye-î Celvetîyye"'' and later reorganized by the Turkish saint Aziz Mahmud Hudayi. ...

(Turkish: ''Celveti'') order of sufis and served as a

qadi A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...

(Islamic judge) in

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, Egypt, Bilad al-Sham, Sham (Syria), and Bursa. A murid (disciple) and Caliph, khalifah (successor) of Üftade Hazretleri of Bursa, he wrote about thirty works, seven of them in Turkish language, Turkish. Mustafa Gaibi, a prominent sufi from Ottoman Bosnia, was one of his disciples. His following supplication prompted many sailors of the Ottoman Navy to visit his grave before going out to sea: He died in

, Istanbul and is buried in
mausoleum
that is a popular tourist destination. The small stone house where he lived is a few miles away from the mausoleum. The 19th-century Üsküdar-born artist Hoca Ali Rıza, Hoca Ali Riza painted a watercolour of the house standing alone in what was then countryside. A foundation named after him now maintains the house which has become the Çilehane Mescid overlooked by the large new Çilehane Cami.

Four Patron Saints of the Bosphorus

Along with Yahya Efendi, Telli Baba, and Joshua#Islam, Joshua, Aziz Mahmud Hudayi is considered to be one of the Four Patron Saints of the Bosphorus.

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Life

Four Patron Saints of the Bosphorus

See also

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