İLSAM AKADEMİ HAKEMLİ DERGİSİ

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The most important aspect of the Maghrib-Mashriq relations is to perform the pilgrimage and to request ilim from the ulemâ in the centers where Islam was born and sciences developed. Some of the Andalusian and Maghrib pilgrims, who set off to visit the "first House built for people" when the safety on the road routes was ensured, explained these long and arduous journeys both in detail and in a literary way, mostly in the pilgrimage travel books they wrote on the way back. In these travel books, the cities, towns, villages, the material and spiritual elements they have, the scholars encountered, the state dignitaries, various beliefs are explained. Belevî, the subject of our study, went on a pilgrimage when he was 23 years old in 736/1335. Belevî, who stopped by many cities on this long pilgrimage that would take five years, returned to Andalusia and completed his work Tâcü’l-mefrik, in which he described his experiences during the pilgrimage. In this study, the difficulties of both pilgrimage and scientific journey from the eyes of an Andalusian youth in the 14th century, the observation of the cities visited, the hearing of knowledge from the ulama in the cities, the approval of its teaching and narration, the expression of the emotions felt in various places into poetry and an effort will be discussed. In the study, the observations of the African and Maghrib pilgrims, which are among the places visited by the Belevi, in Egypt and therefore in the cities of Alexandria, Cairo, Gaza, Jerusalem, Mecca and Medina will be explained.