Salacıoğlu (also named in full as Salacıoğlu Mustafa Celveti or Giritli Salacıoğlu Mustafa Celveti, sometimes with the title
sheikh added) was a
Turkish Cretan sufi poet of the late 18th century and early 19th century, author of one collection of poetry and of two
mesnevis. He also used the
pen names Salacızade and Salacıdedeoğlu.
Little is known on his life. He was born in
Hanya some time before 1756, in which year his father, Sheikh Ahmed Efendi is known to have died, and he died in
Kandiye in or some time after 1825, year which is recorded in a number of his late poetry. Through his poems, he is known to have travelled a lot and to have spent a few years in
İstanbul
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, notably under the teaching of another renowned sufi of his time, Haşim Baba of
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; ...
.
Aside from his poetry in the Sufi tradition with a strong lyric touch, an important part of his verses were also intended to mark the foundation dates and other information related to public works (such as schools, fountains, other buildings) following the traditional method of ebced (
abjad
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), a system of enumeration by letters of the
Arabic script. His verses composed to correspond with significations according to the ebced system give valuable information on the
Turkish society in
Crete
Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, ...
.
Poetry
Sources
* Poetry by Salacıoğlu by the Turkish Ministry of Cultur
in Englishin Frenchin German
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1756 births
1825 deaths
Divan poets from the Ottoman Empire
Sufi poets
Turkish-language poets
Cretan Turks
People from Chania
Cretan poets