The historic background of some of the karamat motives in Abdal Musa and Seyyid Ali Sultan's velayetnames

The aim of our study is to examine the historical karamat motifs and try to descend to their origins by dealing with the similar ones. Our study covers the life of Abdal Musa who lived in the end of XIII century and XIV century, and the life of Seyyid Ali Sultan who lived in the XIV century and the beginning of the XV century. With the establishment of Sufism after the political mobility in Anatolia, Seyyid Ali Sultan and Abdal Musa emerged with the identity of an effective evliya. In our study, the karâmat motifs found in the velayetname's of these two saints are mentioned. These miracles were not revealed in their assumed occurrence period but later by the dervishes of these people. Some of the miraculous/karamat motifs mentioned in our study are the cults that occured before Islam and they are consisted of a few incidents that show differences -becuase of their entrance of our lives after Islam- but based on the same foundations. In addition to these, there are some incidents that have been formed in the context of some concepts and entities that came into our lives with Islam. Therefore, in our study we tried to give place to the historical background of these miracle/karamat motifs. In our work, there are six karamat motives examined three of them belongs to Abdal Musa and the other three belongs to Seyyid Ali Sultan. These motifs were dealt with in a proper order, and primarily they're dealt with considering the origin of the karamat motifs by trying to detect where they come from. Secondly, the events in similar karamat motifs in velayetname's written in the same period or in the near term are discussed. Finally, the main motif in velayetname's was examined and evaluated.