Sheikh Bedreddin
شیخ بدرالدین
A convert to Ṣūfism (Islāmic mysticism), in 1383 Bedreddin undertook the pilgrimage to Mecca, and, upon his return to Cairo, he was appointed tutor to the Mamlūk crown prince of Egypt. He then traveled as a Ṣūfī missionary throughout Asia Minor. His communalistic doctrines made him a popular preacher, and in 1410 he was appointed a military judge by Mûsa, a claimant to the Ottoman throne. On the defeat of Mûsa in 1413, Bedreddin was banished to the Ottoman city of İznik.
During his exile Bedreddin further refined his doctrines and maintained contact with a secret society that in 1416 staged a social uprising, of which he became the ideological head. Upon the collapse of the rebellion, he was arrested, and, after a trial of dubious legality, he was convicted and hanged. (Britannica)
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Influenced by the pantheist doctrines of Muhyiddin Ibnu'l-Arabi, he believed that God and nature were two different appearances of the same phenomenon. Absolute diversity was the characteristic of nature, and absolute unity that of God, the two appearing in the forms of matter and spirit, inseparable from each other. Shey Bedreddin rejected the notions of the Day of Judgement, heaven and hell, considering these as symbols for the interpretation of daily life. His political doctrine declared that all things, except for women, should become common property. (S. Aksin Somel)
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