ff. 407v-412v.
30 See Darling, “Justice and Power in the Ottoman Empire”; İnalcık, “Adâletnâmeler”.
711
Osmanlı’da İlm-i Tasavvuf
In spite of Murād’s blessed sultanate, and in spite of the justice of his appoint-
ed representative in Egypt, Ḥāfıẓ Aḥmed, however, all was not well in Egypt,
for Bedouins are causing trouble. Indeed, so the people say, if the ruler really
wants to put a stop to tyranny (ki şeh def‘-i ẓulm isteriyse eğer), he ought finish
off those Bedouins who bring cruelty and affliction over Egypt (Gelür Mıṣra her
dem cefā ve miḥen), and then especially the main evildoers among them, “their
leaders in mischief” and “the like of (the people of) ‘Ād (Ḫuṣūṣan bulardan
re’īs el-fesād
*
Muḥārib çū ‘Ād işleri hep ‘inād), “those called ‘Azāle and obedient
to (the devil) ‘Azāzīl
*
Whose rebellion and scandalous behaviour continue”
(
‘Azāle be-nām ve ‘Azāzīle rām
*
Rezāletle ṭuġyānları ber-devām), and who “revel
in (shedding) illicit blood” (Daḫi ḫūn-i nā-ḥakḳdı cümbişleri). In the past, the
Mamluk sultan Ḳāyıtbāy (r. 1468-1496) had sent some swift-footed punitive ex-
peditions against them (Niçe kere merḥūm şeh Ḳāyıtbāy
*
Cerīde ėdüb ‘asker-i
tēz-pāy), yet, while he was able to put down the enemy’s burning and fire (
Sūz
u nār-i a‘dāyı söndürmiş ol), time and this flared up anew. On more than one oc-
casion, they even entered the city of Cairo through the Bābü’n-Naṣr, bringing
calamity to the very heart of Mıṣır. As the Circassian sultans (r. 1382-1517) fell
short to mend this (Selāṭīn-i Çerkes ḳalub ‘ācizīn
*
‘İlāc ėtmemişler o derde hemīn),
a general lawlessness ensued, with wine being drunk, people being roasted,
and women being abused rather than married. In short, whatever sacred ob-
servances there were in Islam, quickly these ‘Azāle disposed of them. Never
did they turn to a judge; never did they humble themselves before the gov-
ernors, acting instead as their own mufti and their own judge. They roamed
Giza, Şübrement and Ümm Ḫunān, Dehşūr and Dimnāvī, stealing gold and
other goods from the people, traders, pilgrims and travellers alike. After
the Ottoman take-over in 1517, the Ottoman governors had sent expeditions
against them (Görüb anlaruñ cevrini dāyimā
*
Ėderlerdi irsāl ılġar aña). These
efforts were never to any lasting avail, given these governors’ short tenure (Velī
çāre hergez bulunmazdı
*
Ki varanlaruñ müddeti azdı). But now, under Aḥmed’s
beylerbeylicate, these mischievous ‘Azāle had taken it too far: in Giza, they
murdered Ca‘fer b. Ḫabīr, a member of one of their own leading families, who,
significantly, had been appointed by the Ottoman sultan as the şeyḫü’l-‘Arab
of Giza (Daḫi Cīzede şimdi şeyḫ alub
*
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