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Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi (1541–1628), (b.Şereflikoçhisar, d.Üsküdar), is amongst the most famousSufiMuslim saints of theOttoman Empire. Amystic,poet,composer,author,statesman andHanafiMaturidiIslamic scholar,[1] he was the third and last husband ofAyşe Hümaşah Sultan, granddaughter of SultanSuleiman the Magnificent.
Born in Central Anatolia, Aziz Mahmud Hudayi completed his studies in amedrese in Istanbul. He became theSheikh ofSultanAhmed I who constructed the famousBlue Mosque and so read the firstFriday prayer there on its opening. He was also especially respected bySultan Murad III. He is a descendant of Junayd of Baghdad, and, as a descendant ofHusayn ibn 'Ali, can be called asayyid.
He founded theJelveti (Turkish:Celveti) order of sufis and served as aqadi (Islamic judge,kadı in Turkish) inEdirne,Egypt,Sham (Syria), andBursa. Amurid (disciple) andkhalifah (successor) ofÜftadeHazretleri of Bursa, he wrote about thirty works, seven of them inTurkish.Mustafa Gaibi, a prominent sufi fromOttoman Bosnia, was one of his disciples.
His supplication prompted manysailors of theOttoman Navy to visit his grave before going out to sea:
Those who visit us when we are alive, and those who visit our grave after our death and read theFatiha when passing by our tomb are ours. May those who love us not drown at sea, may they not suffer poverty in their old age, and may they not pass away without saving theirfaith.[2]
He died inÜsküdar,Istanbul and was buried on a site which is now enclosed within a mosque complex that remains a site of pilgrimage and devotion.[3] By 1855 it was in ruins but was restored and expanded bySultan Abdülmecid I.[3]
The small stone house in which he lived is a few miles away from the complex. The 19th-century Üsküdar-born artistHoca 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.[4]
Along withYahya Efendi,Telli Baba, andYuşa (Joshua), Aziz Mahmud Hudayi is considered to be one of the Four Patron Saints of theBosphorus.
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