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potency of the political and military competition posed by the tribal-nomadic adherents
of Junayd that led the Ottoman administration to be curious about the young Shaykh.
But Murad II welcomed Junayd’s envoy and sent them back them with gifts.
4.2.4.2. Konya: Shi’ite Color
Seeing there was no refuge in the Ottoman territories for him, Junayd moved to the land
of Karaman, which was the traditional rival of Ottoman power in Anatolia. 551 He lodged
with the Zaviye of Sadreddin Konevi in Konya. The Shaykh of this zaviye, Shaykh
Abdullatif, was a deputy (halife) of Zeyneddin Hāfī, who was the founder of the
Zeyniyye Order. 552 Shaykh Abdullatif did not warmly welcome Junayd. Aşıkpaşazāde
reports that he rejected on several occasions Junayd’s demand for a meeting. The
communication between the two Shaykhs took place through the mediation of Junayd’s
tutor Mevlāna Hayreddin. 553 Aşıkpaşazāde’s narration of the events that took place in
Konya is quite unreliable. Abdullatif replies to the tutor of Junayd, upon his demand for
a meeting with Junayd: ‘the former row is former!’ 554 Then for a while the two Shaykhs
did not meet, says Aşıkpaşazāde. During this time Junayd prayed behind a window in
the mosque until the two Shaykhs came together after a mid-afternoon prayer. During
the first meeting, the two Shaykhs talked for a while and departed from one another with
the intention of meeting again in thirty days. During this time some scribes copied the
books of Muhyiddin-i Arabī and Sadreddin Konevī, preserved in the zaviye, for Junayd.
It was after copying of all the books that they met again. Aşıkpaşazāde needs to declare
551 According to Hinz, Junayd arrived in Konya most probably in 1550. See Hinz, p. 18.
552 Mükrimin H. Yinanç, “Cüneyd”, IA, p. 243.
553 Hayreddin was a pupil of Hizir Beg. He later on became the tutors of Mehmed II. See Yinanç, p. 243;
Tahsin Yazıcı, DIA, “Cüneyd-i Safevî”, p. 124.
554 “es-saffü evvelü ūlā”, APZ, p. 243.
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