Poet (b. ?, Diyarbakır – d.
1533, Cairo / Egypt). He went to Tabriz and received Islamic Sciences Education. He met
Dede Ömer Rûşeni, one of the sheikhs of the Halveti sect and became affiliated
to him. In the small dervish lodge that Sultan Yakub had made for him in Tabriz
he spread the doctrine of the Gülşenî sect that he systemized in his own name.
After he returned to Diyarbakır he went to Egypt. He was invited to İstanbul by
Kanuni Sultan Suleyman. He went to Egypt again. He continued his guidance
duties at his lodge and passed away there. He wrote poems in Turkish, Persian
and Arabian with the influence of Mevlânâ and Yunus Emre. He wrote mesnevi*s
with the titles Dîvân (Divan*), Mânevî (Moral), Râznâme (Book
of Secrets) and Kenzü’l-Cevahir (Hidden Treause) one in each of
these three languages.
REFERENCE: Tahsin Yazıcı / İbrahim
Gülşenî ve Tarikatı (1982), Şevket Beysanoğlu / “İbrahim Gülşeni” (Diyarbekirlı
Fikir ve Sanat Adamları (1. Cilt 2. Bas. Ankara 1966, s.60-76), Bursalı Mehmed Tahir / Osmanlı
Müellifleri I (1972), Arslan Tekin / Edebiyatımızda İsimler ve Terimler (1995),
Hasan Ali Kasır / Ölüm Şiirleri (1998), Himmet Konur / İbrahim Gülşenî / Hayatı
Eserleri –Tarikatı (2000), Nihat Azamat / TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (c. 21,
2000), İhsan Işık / Resimli
ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006,
gen. 2. bas. 2007) -
Diyarbakır Ansiklopedisi (2013) – Geçmişten Günümüze Diyarbakırlı İlim Adamları Yazarlar ve
Sanatçılar (2014).
