<論考>オスマン朝期スーフィズム思想に見られる円環に関する考察 --ニヤーズィー・ムスリーの『デヴリーイェ論考』を中心に--

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine "the circular model of Existence" called "devir" or "dâ'ire-ivücûd" in Ottoman Turkish. There are various Sufi writings based on the concept of devir, which is usually referred to as "Devriyye" in the terminology of Turkish literature studies. In this type of writings, many mystical poems written by Ottoman Sufi s that belong to any specific Tarīqa like Ḫalvetiyye or Bektaşiyye. Originally, devir means the way that all beings have been manifested from the Oneness and returned to Him, and thus is imagined as a circle (dâ'ire). Although devir is theoretically based on the concept of the Oneness of Being (Vaḥdet-ivücûd) and has an ontological framework, the word devriyye, which expresses devir in words, has not been suffi ciently analyzed beyond the field of literature studies. This paper will reveal the meaning of devir through Niyâzî-i Mıṣrî (d. 1105/1694)'s prose treatise, Risâle-i Devriyye. Mıṣrî was a great Sufi thinker of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century and, at the same time, a representative poet in Anatolia. Depending on a philosophical perspective, the paper analyzes Mıṣrî's descriptions by focusing on his views on human-being (insân), which becomes a keyword for understanding "perfection" described as a circle. Finally, the significance of this book to Devriyye writings is emphasized.