, Tekiyye or Tekye (t.), from Arabic takiyya pl. takāyā , derived, via takīʾa , from form VIII of the root w-k-ʾ , which signifies “to rely on”, “receive support”, and, in the nominal forms takiyya and muttakaʾ , “place or thing on which one relies, where one rests” (R. Blachère et al., Dictionnaire arabe-français-anglais , Paris 1970, ii, 1062-3). The term (in its Turkish form tekke or tekiyye , Pers. takiya or Ar. takiyya), conventionally denotes an establishment belonging to a group of Ṣūfīs, where the latter gather around a s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ , perform their ritual ( d̲h̲ikr …

(Tekiy̲y̲e̲ ou Tekye), de l’arabe takiyya (plur. lakāyā), venant de taklʾa, dérivé de la 8eme forme de la racine w-k-ʾ qui signifie «s’appuyer», «prendre appui» ou «endroit ou chose sur lequel on s’appuie, où on se repose» (R. Blachère et alii, Dictionnaire arabe-Français-Anglais, Paris 1970, II, 1062-63). Le terme (sous sa forme turque tekke ou tekiyye, persane taki̲ya ou arabe takiyya) désigne communément un établissement propre à un groupe de Sūfīs, où ceux-ci se retrouvent autour du s̲h̲ayk̲h̲, effectuent leur rituel ( d̲h̲ikr) et leurs dévotions, etc.; il est donc à rapp…

tekke (T, < A takiyya, pl. takāyā; P takiya), tekiyye or tekye : an establishment belonging to a group of ṣūfīs…

is a region of Russian Turkistān. Under the name Ākhāl (which only appears in modern times) are gathered together the oases on the Northern slope of the mountain-ranges Kopet-Dag̲h̲ and Küren-Dag̲h̲, between the present railway-stations Ḳizil-Arwat and Gjaurs. The second part of the name is taken from the ¶ present inhabitants of this region, the Tekke, a tribe of Turkomans. Abu’l-G̲h̲āzī already mentions the Tekke in the 10th (16th) century as inhabitants of the region between the Balk̲h̲ān mountains and the town of Darūn (near the present railway-station Bahar…

was between 1882 and 1890 the name of a district ( uězd ) in the Russian territory ( oblastʾ ) of Transcaspia, which had been conquered by the Russians in 1881. It comprised the subdistricts of Atek [ q.v.] (chief place: the village of Kaak̲h̲ka) and Durūn [ q.v.] (Darūn; chief place: Bak̲h̲arden). Since 1890 the district is called ʿAs̲h̲ḳābād [ q.v.]—The name Āk̲h̲āl (which is of modern origin) applies to the oases on the northern slope of the Kopet Dag̲h̲ and Küren Dag̲h̲; Tekke refers to the Tekke or Teke [ q.v.] Turkmen, the present inhabitants of this region. The Islamic geographe…

était, entre 1882 et 1890, le nom d’un arrondissement ( učzd) dans le territoire ( oblastʾ) de la Transcaspie, que les Russes avaient conquis en 1881 et qui comprenait les districts d’Atek [ q.v.] (avec le village de Kaak̲h̲ka comme centre) et de Durun [ q.v.] (Darun; avec Bakharden comme centre). A partir de 1890, cet arrondissement a été désigné sous le nom de ʿAs̲h̲kābād [ q.v.]. Le nom (moderne) d’Āk̲h̲āl s’applique aux oasis situées sur le versant nord du Kopet Dag̲h̲ et du Küren Dag̲h̲; Tekke indique les Turkmènes Tekke ou Teke [ q.v.] habitants actuels de la région. Au moyeu âge, …

, a Turkoman tribe. They are not mentioned among the 22 (so Maḥmūd Kās̲h̲g̲h̲arī, i. 56 sqq.) or 24 (so Ras̲h̲īd al-Dīn, ed. Berezin, Trudi̊ Vost. Otd. Ark̲h̲ Obs̲h̲č., vii. 32 sqq.) Og̲h̲uz tribes. At a later date they are described as descendants of the Salur [q. v.]. Abu ’l-G̲h̲āzī [q. v.] comprises the Teke with two other tribes, the Sari̊ḳ and the Yomut, under the name “Outer Salur” ( tas̲h̲ḳī Salūr; ed. Desmaisons, p. 209). In his still unprinted history of the Turkomans, Abu ’l-G̲h̲āzī describes the Sari̊ḳ and Teke as descendants of the Salur Toi-Tutmas (tra…

Demir Baba Tekke is the main religious centre of the Alevi/Kızılbaş community in the Deliorman region of northeastern Bulgaria and is located near the village of Sveshtari, in the region of Razgrad. The tekke dates from the second half of the tenth/sixteenth century and is one of several Alevi tekkes erected in Bulgaria in that period: Akyazılı Baba (Tekke village near Varna), Otman Baba (Tekke village near Haskovo), Kademli Baba (Sokol village near Nova Zagora), and Musa Baba (Izbul village near Shumen). They were founded during the state-enf…

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telk̲h̲īṣ (T, < A) : in Ottoman administration, a document in which the most important matters are s…

ʿAbdī Bābā (d. at the beginning of the nineteenth century) founded the tekke (convent) of the Khalwatī-Ḥayatī Ṣūfī order in Štip—his native city —in the second half of the twelfth/eighteenth century. He was responsible for the diffusion of the order in the Štip region. (The Khalwatiyya is a Ṣūfī order founded in mediaeval Herat). His descendants wrote, in a typescript entitled Ecdadımızın Mensup Olduğu Hânikayı Halvetiyül Hayatî Tarikatının Tarihini yazıyor (It describes the history of the path of the lodge Khalwatī-Ḥayatī which belonged to our ancestors), that h…

(p.), lit. “the one sitting on the [sheep’s] skin”, the title given to the baba or head of a dervish tekke in Persian and Ottoman Turkish Ṣūfī practice, e.g. amongst the Bektās̲h̲īs [see bektās̲h̲iyya ]. (Ed.) Bibliography J.K. Birge, The Bektas̲h̲i order of dervishes, London 1937, 57 n. 2, 269.

(p.), litt. «qui s’assied sur une peau [de mouton]», titre donné au baba ou chefd’une tekke de derviches dans la pratique ṣūfie persane et ottomane, p. ex. chez les Bektās̲h̲is [voir Bektās̲h̲iyya]. (Réd.) Bibliography J. K. Birge, The Bektas̲h̲i order of dervis̲h̲es, Londres 1937, 57, n. 2, 269.

pūst (P, T pōst or pōstakī) : ‘skin’; a tanned sheepskin, used as the ceremonial seat or throne of the head, pīr or s̲h̲ayk…

, a town in Ḵh̲orāsān, formerly called Būzand̲j̲ird, to the north of Elburz in the valley of the Atrek at the foot of Nak̲h̲čīr-kūh on the north and of the Alā-Dag̲h̲ and Sehlūk on the south; it has about 4000 houses. A citadel, in which the governor resides rises above the ¶ town. A boulevard planted with trees ( Ḵh̲iyābān) leads in a straight line from the gate of the citadel to the farthest end of the town, which before the Russian occupation, was exposed to the inroads of the Tekke Turkomans. (Cl. Huart) Bibliography Nāṣir al-Dīn S̲h̲āh, Siyāḥatnāma-i Ḵh̲urāsān, p. 348.

ʿAlī Hormova (1902–85), the head of the Khalwatī community in Albania between 1949 (or 1951) and 1966 was, according to his son, Merkez Shehu, born on 23 May 1902, in the village of Hormova, near Gjirokastër, in present-day southern Albania. (The Khalwatiyya is a Ṣūfī order founded in Baku by Yaḥyā Shīrvānī, who died in Baku around 1460). ʿAlī Hormova was the son of Shaykh Vehbi (d. 1917), descendant of a line of shaykhs who had had charge of the Khalwatī tekke (Ṣūfī complex) in Hormova since the end of the eighteenth or beginning of the nineteenth century. ʿAlī attended a p…

The Akhī-Qādiriyya (Turk. Akhi-Qādiriyye) was a branch of the widespread Qādiriyya Ṣūfī order associated with the tanners’ and saddlers’ guilds and with Akhism—the Turkish form of the Arabic futuwwa, a term meaning literally the qualities of a young man (fatā) and referring to various urban movements and organisations, both Ṣūfī and professional—which is known to have existed in eleventh/seventeenth century Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia. Research by the Albanian historian Zija Shkodra led in the 1960s to the discovery of a document …

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Sirrī (1199–1263/1785–1847), an illustrious Bosnian Naqsh-bandī shaykh, was born in Fojnica, a small town to the northeast of Sarajevo, into a family of ʿulamāʾ (his father and grandfather were qāḍīs). He studied at the madrasa of Fojnica under the famous Naqshbandī shaykh Ḥusayn-bābā Zukić (d. c. 1798–1800), from the nearby village of Živčići/Vukeljići, who soon initiated him into the Naqshbandiyya ṭarīqa (“path”) and bestowed the makhlaṣ (“[poetic] surname”) “Sirrī” (“secret,” “mysterious”) upon him. Some time after the death of shaykh Ḥusayn, shaykh Sirrī fou…

, a Turkish title, with the sense of head of a Muslim cloister ( tekke ) of the Bektās̲h̲ī Order; the name of a tekke at Buda and of another tekke in the neighbourhood of Edirne; the name of a legendary personality. The name Gülbaba, in connexion with the tekke and the türbe so designated at Buda, appears in Turkish documents of 974/1566 with the form (Vienna, Flügel 1294); on a manuscript sketch-map of 1684 (E. Veres, Marsigli jelentése és térképei Budavár 1684., 1686. évi ostromairól [Report and maps of Marsigli on the sieges of the fortress of Buda in the years 1684 and 1686], in Budapest régiség…