The life, works and mystical views of Baba Tahir Uryan

There is no information about Baba Tahir in Tabaqat works. Therefore, we do not have sufficient and satisfactory information about his life. On the contrary, we learn Baba Tahir, in general terms, from his anecdotical life. The narration that Ravendi, in his book Rahat al-Sudur, conveyed about Baba Tahir is a historical information that there is no contrary explanation about it. This information gives us a certain idea about the period in which Baba Tahir lived. According to this, it can be said that our Sufi lived during the reign of the Kakuyi Dynasty, which was under the rule of Buveyhis, and it is taken as a basis his meeting with Tughrul Bey, he witnessed the first years of the Great Seljuks. As a result, it can be said that he lived until 447/1055 or later. He is said to have written twenty-three works. However, only two of them have survived. The works in question are composed of the poems he has expressed in dubeyit style and the al-Kelimat al-Qısar that he wrote about sufism. His poems, which he wrote in the style of Dubeyti, have been become notorious and many studies have been done on it. al-Kelimat al-Qısar explains the terms of sufism with concise words and in this respect, it is an extension of the tradition of hikamiyyat. As a result, Baba Tahir is an important part of Islamic culture and civilization. Although we have little information about him, his deep and qualified works tell us a lot.