Ismail Hakki Bursevi

İsmail Hakkı Bursevî
İsmail Hakkı Bursevî's Tomb in Bursa
Born	a Sunday 1653 Aytos, Ottoman Empire, now Bulgaria
Died	1725 (aged 71–72) Bursa, Anatolia, Turkey
Resting place	Bursa Turkey
Other names	İsmail Hakkı Üsküdar
Ethnicity	Turkish people
Occupation	Author, Translator, Sheikh, Musical composition, Poet
Religion	Islam
Jurisprudence	Sunni
Movement	Sufism
Main interest(s)	Theology, Ethics, Mysticism
Notable idea(s)	Translating Arabic books into Turkish
Notable work(s)	Commentaries of the Koran, Ibn Arabi, Rumi, Attar, Najmuddin Kubra
Sufi order	Jelveti
Influenced by Muhammad, Abd-al-Baqi, Osman Fazli, Jami, Rumi, Mahmud Hudayi, bn 'Arabi, Attar, Najmuddin Kubra
Influenced Sultan Mehmet IV, Sultan Mustafa II, Grand Vizier Elmas Mehmed Pasha

İsmail Hakkı Bursevî, Ismāʿīl Ḥaḳḳī al-Brūsawī, (Turkish: Bursalı İsmail Hakkı, Arabic: اسماعيل حقى، بروسهلى، Iranian: Esmã’īl Ḥaqqī Borsavī) was a 17th-century Ottoman Turkish Muslim scholar, a Jelveti Sufi author on mystical experience and the esoteric interpretation of the Quran; also a poet and musical composer. İsmail Hakkı Bursevî influenced many parts the Ottoman Empire but primarily Turkey. To this day he is revered as one of the ‘Büyükler’, the great saints of Anatolia. He is regarded as an eminent literary figure in the Turkish language, having authored more than a hundred works.Translations of some of his works are now available for the English-speaking world.

İsmail Hakkı was the son of Muṣṭafā, who was in turn son of Bayram Čawush, who was in turn son of Shah Ḵhudā-bende. İsmail Hakkı was born in 1652 or 1653 in Aytos, Thrace although his parents came from Aksaray, Istanbul. His mother died when he was aged seven and on the suggestion of Shaykh Osman Fazli he was sent to c.1663 Edirne (Adrinaople), to receive traditional education under the scholar ʿAbd-al-Baki, a relative of the Shaykh