Genel Türk Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi

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After the emergence of the religion of Islam, various structures emerged in the Muslim society, both in the administrative and socio-cultural fields. The lodges, which were among these structures and turned into an institutional identity over time, had important roles in social life. These roles have a great impact on people living their religious practices, growing up with an Islamic upbringing and morality and assimilating social values. As a matter of fact, the fact that big dervish lodges also have large libraries is an indication that they are managed with a systematic understanding in the transfer of religious and cultural values. With this function of lodges, one of the most important reasons why they do not face a serious reaction in Turkish-Islamic societies, on the contrary, they are generally protected by state administrators, should be sought in their reforming and revitalizing roles. The existence of lodges in the geographies where Islam spread is one of the results of their social and political acceptance. However, the well-acceptance of the lodges in the eyes of the society and their reaching large masses also paved the way for political systems to benefit from them. This situation was sometimes to the benefit of the dervish lodges, and sometimes to its detriment.
As a matter of fact, the Janissary Corps, which formed the backbone of the Ottoman state and army system, adopted the basic principles of the Bektashi Lodge and ensured that these principles were kept alive in the army. Similarly, it is known that the Akhism, which regulates the sheikh-disciple relations in dervish lodges and zawiyas, and the relations between masters, journeymen and apprentices in workplaces, and accordingly the economic life, spread to every corner of Anatolia. It is understood from the Bektashi and Ahi legends that they have a strong religious and scientific structure that feeds the Bektashi and Ahi lodges.
The life of the lodge was initially shaped around the basic sources of the Islamic religion such as the Qur'an, hadith, learning the orders and prohibitions of the religion, and the principles of being a better and moral person. Along with these Islamic principles, the dervish lodges were reshaped within the framework of some principles put forward by the sect leader. These structural changes resulted in some rebellion movements known as Babais Kalenderis in Islamic history. At this point, the sources read or fed by the connoisseurs of the lodge gain importance. The books taught in dervish lodges help us to understand the structure of the sect to which the connoisseurs of the lodge belonged.
In this study, the structure, functioning and scientific activities of the Sheikh Şaban-ı Veli Lodge and Library were mentioned, and the books found here were examined in terms of subject and content. In addition, the change in the library over time and the current situation of the books in it are mentioned. In addition to this, Kastamonu, where the first period Turkmen population lived intensely and which was the epicenter of the gas and jihad raids organized by the first Turkish principalities established in Anatolia against the Byzantines, and which was called the "Qaeda of the Turkmens" because of this feature, was also mentioned.