ABOUT ECONOMIC LIFE IN THE XIIIth CENTURY IN ANATOLIA AT VAL?YAT-N?MA-I H?DJ? BAKT?SH-? W?L?

Abstract

Document analysis, which is the most important study method used by historians while reaching information about the past of cultures or civilizations, is tried to obtain a picture showing the whole of the relevant culture and civilization by establishing a relationship with each other within a certain framework. Here in this study, based on the samples obtained from Val?yat-N?ma-ı H?dj? Bakt?sh-? W?l?; It has been tried to make inferences about the economic life of XIIIth century Anatolia. The work known as Manâkıb-ı Hünkâr H?dj? Bakt?sh-? W?l? or Val?yat-N?ma-ı H?dj? Bakt?sh-? W?l?; It is a copy written by Uzun Ferdowsi at the end of the XVth century and the beginning of the XVIth century, and describes H?dj? Bakt?sh-? W?l?, who was known to have lived in the first quarter of the 1200s and 1300s. In the light of Val?yat- N?ma-ı H?dj? Bakt?sh-? W?l?, which is one of the most well-known and most readable texts in Anatolia of the XIIIth century, aiming to propagate the thoughts, lives, practices and activities of H?dj? Bakt?sh-? W?l?; this study includes inferences about the social life in the political, religious, economic and socio-cultural fields of the Anatolian geography, which we see through a painful period both politically, economically and religiously; an introduction about the subject covered in the text, where the purpose, method, main problem and sub-problems are given, the first part where the political panorama of XIIIth century Anatolia is given, the second part where H?dj? Bakt?sh-? W?l? and his work are discussed, and the third part where the findings about the economic life from the work are given. It consists of conclusion parts in which a general evaluation of the study is made in the light of the findings.