Religious
scholar and Sufi (B. 1206 Karaman –D. 1296, Bilecik). He was the father-in-law
of Osman Ghazi and the grandfather of Orhan Ghazi. He continued his education,
which he began in Karaman, in
According to
what Âşıkpaşazâde told based on the account of Mahmud Pasha, who was the son of
Edebâli,
and Yahşi Fakih, the son of Osman Ghazi’s imam İshak Fakih; one night Osman
Ghazi stayed at Edebâli’s hermitage and in his dream he saw the
moon entering his breast and at the same time he saw a tree springing from his
navel and saw the shadow of this tree spreading over the whole world and saw
mountains rising from underneath it and waters coming out from under every
mountain. When he told Edebâli his dream, the sheikh told him that
Allah gave sultanate to Osmanoğulları (T. N. the Ottoman Dynasty) and he
married his daughter Mal Hatun off with Osman Bey. While this name is found in
certain sources as Mal Hatun, Oruç b. Âdil writes in Tevûrîh-i Âl-i Osmân that Osman Ghazi did not have this dream but
it was his father Ertuğrul Ghazi who had this dream and that sheikh’s daughter
who married Osman Ghazi was called Râbia (Bâlâ) Hatun.
Edebali, who was
one of the Ahî sheikhs, was also an Ottoman kadi and mufti. After living a long
life he passed away in Bilecik.