Abstract
From Blessed Beginning to Eternal Rest: Perception of Soil in Turkish Mysticism
Starting from ancient mythologies, it can be seen that
some conceptsare endowed with connotations of the
symbol language. Notionof soil is also loaded with various
meanings by being fed from the oldest texts to the today's
understandings and manners of lives. This notion is used
for literal and figurative connotations with its containing
meaning richness in tasawwuf/sufi literature which
emerged from the interaction betweenIslamic belief
structure and cultural elements.
Soil which is accepted as one of the basic ingredients of
creation of the world and the humankind, on one hand, is
used in texts as a symbol of humility, devotion, loyalty,
vitality, reliableness on the other hand, it also connotates
death in minds along with belief, mercy and grace symbols.
In this study, the connotations that notion of soil
will be tried to revealed based on the Turkish Tasawwuf
texts.
Keywords
Literature, semantics, mysticism, tasawwuf, soil.