A Shazeli branch in Palestine: The construction of Yashruti culture in the texts of Fatima al-Yashruti

Fatima al-Yashruti was a woman mystic who lived in the Islamic cities like Palestine-Acre, Damascus, Cairo and Beirut between 1891-1979. She had four books: Rıhle ilel Hak, Nefehatül Hak, Mevahibül Hak and Mesireti fi Tarikil Hak. Her main purpose was introduced her father Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti (1794-1899), his way of Yashrutiyya branch of al-Shadhiliyya and his view of mysticism. The.construction of identity of Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti, the spiritual head of the tariqa, is provided with the miraculous expressions of tales. Some parts of the works have autobiographic characteristics. These four books are primary sources of the history of al-Yashrutiyya. Yashrutiyya which was came out in Akka, Palestine reached to many different regions and countries like Lebanon, Syria, Eygpt, East Africa coast, Comor Islands, Uganda, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Tanzania, Brazil and Canada. This paper is about Fatima al-Yashruti, Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti and al-Yashrutiyya in which there is no comprehensive academic study in Turkish literatüre before. In the first chapter of this thesis, consisting of introduction and three chapters, discussed in terms of main Sufi Literature, the life of Fatima al-Yashruti; her works, educational environment, sense of mysticism and basis of this sense. The second chapter is about the biography, miracles and the mystic conception of Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti. The last part, the third chapter consists of foundation, evolvement, cartography, rules and conventions of tariqa al-Yashrutiyya, which is the subbranch of al-Shadhiliyya-Madaniyya. At the end of the thesis, some pictures about the tariqa and Fatima al-Yashruti and Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti with chronology are presented.