BATTÛTA SEYAHATNAMESİNDEN BİR MENKIBENİN BADE İÇME EKSENİNDE İNCELENMESİ.

Aiming to introduce various regions throughout history, travels are not only valuable sources for disciplines such as history and geography but also serve as important sources for folklore studies. In addition to documenting the historical and geographical characteristics of the places visited, travel writers also provide insights into the local folk culture. The Travels of Ibn Battûta, written in the 14th century, is one of the valuable works in the Turkish Folklore with the products it had. While describing the places he visited in Anatolia, the author also closely observed the local culture, incorporating legends and parables he encountered in oral tradition into his work. One of the parables Battûta includes in his book is about Mevlâna. This article examines that specific parable within the framework of spiritual dreaming (bade içme/wine motif) a practice traditionally linked to shamanism. The aim of the study is to identify the similarities and differences between the classical "bade içme" ritual and the extraordinary event experienced by Mevlâna. In this context, incidents regarded as "bade içme" experienced by figures such as shamans, warrior saints (alperen), saints (evliya), and minstrels are compared. The fact that this parable still continued to be told a century after Mevlâna indicates that local people had not forgotten beliefs and legends related to the initiation of kams, which originated from Shamanism - an old belief system at that time. In this context, this cultural heritage which experienced some changes and was transferred from shaman to saint / Mevlâna preserved its continuity by passing from him to minstrel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]