MALTEPE BAŞIBÜYÜK VILLAGE DAVER BABA/KERİME NİNE LODGE

Abstract

The Khorasan erens, the gazi dervishes and the Alp erens played important colonial roles in the Turkification and Islamization of Anatolia. Among the struggles of the Ottoman Principality in Byzantium, these gazi dervishes settled in the Kartal-Goztepe region and took on the role of spectators. Daver Baba Lodge was established and operated in Basıbuyuk village in Kartal-Maltepe region. There is no information about lodge’s activities at that time. It is said that Daver Baba built this unit in the 18th century. In 1826, during the closure and demolition of the Istanbul lodge on the banning of Bektashi, the destruction of the Daver Baba Lodge was also discussed. Daver Baba Lodge, which had been destroyed and closed for a long time, was revived by Kerime Nine in the second half of the 19th century. The 1871 tombstone, which is missing today, states that he was a saint. There is no information about lodge’s activities after its reopening. It is known that he is one of the supporters of the National Struggle. In 1925, due to the closure of all tekke, zāwiyah and tombs, Daver Baba Lodge’s activities came to an end, and the tekke property passed to the waqf (religious endowment) administration. Meanwhile, the lodge land, which was in the possession of Fatma Melahat Güllüzade, was put up for sale in 1933 with an advertisement published in the newspaper Aksam. Sükrü Gulluoglu, who bought the lodge properties, tried to protect the remaining relics from the lodge. In the meantime, the headship of the dervish lodge was conferred on Ekrem Halifebaba from Adana. However, the lodge building, which resisted the destruction of time until recent years, disappeared completely in the early 1990s. Today, the remains of the Ayazma, the fountain and the foundation walls of the Daver Baba Lodge are left behind. In addition, there are no traces left from the present, and the old tombstones have been lost. There is only a newly inscribed marble tombstone indicating that Daver Baba, Kerime Hatun and the martyrs were found there. We do not have archive records related to Daver Baba Lodge. The information available is more based on the observations made by Reshat Ekrem Kocu in the 1960s. In this study, the history of Daver Baba Lodge is considered within the framework of the researches carried out so far with the information given by Kocu and the archive records related to Basıbuyuk village where the tekke was established. Keywords: Istanbul, Maltepe, Basıbuyuk, Bektashism, Daver Baba, Kerime Nine, Adanali Ekrem Halifebaba.