Afyonkarahisar-Boyalıköy Kureyş Baba social complex

Long before the victory of Turks in Malazgirt, Anatolia lands witnessed to Persian and Arabian invasions. In Umayyad period Seyit Battal Gazi, as from Abbasid period Turk commenders as Kavusoğlu Haydar ve Afşin Bey joined to these invasions. During these invasions Afyonkarahisar Castle conquared and Amorium city surrounded by abovementioned invaders. It is known that as a result of Abbasid invasions, Byzantine settlements were mostly ruined and settlement where known as Amorium and is located within the city limits of Afyon today, remained only city that had not collapsed. After the victory of Malazgirt, Turkish raids increased and the Sufi movements spreading from Central Asia reached to the end regions of Anatolia and made great contributions to Turkification, Islamization, colonization and revitalization. The social complex, which is the subject of this thesis and located in Afyon Boyalıköy, is located in an outlying area where has a 100 digits and away from the center. This situation indicates that a settlement is in accordance with the establishment policy of the Sufi movements. No inscription has survived from any structure of Kureyş Baba Social Complex. This situation is caused controversy about the date of the complex and the function of the main structure of the complex. Within the scope of this thesis, the buildings of the Kureyş Baba Social Complex in Afyon is compared with each building type by considering the location, plan, space, historical and political conditions and evaluated about the date and function of the complex.