"Hamdım, Piştim, Yandım": Mevlevî mutfağının zâhiri ve bâtınî rolleri

This thesis starts with the conviction that the strong role of food in traveling can be applied to historical spatio-temporal traveling. Our overarching research question is: what were the different roles played by the kitchen in Ottoman Mevlevîhânes? And our answer which formed the core of our framework was that the Mevlevî kitchen had both inner and outer roles. These roles were reflected in both the functions and the physical presence of two different kitchens in big Mevlevî tekkes known as Âsitâne. As such, Chapter One is a literature review of global food history and a comparison with the specific case of Ottoman food history. Chapter Two covers the outer role of the Mevlevî kitchen through a casestudy of the Vakıf of Mevlânâ Celâleddin Rûmî in the context of multiple crises which hit Central Anatolia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Chapter Three covers the inner role of the Mevlevî kitchen known as matbah-ı şerif through a reading of major primary and secondary sources and a comparison with the relevant miniatures from an early Seventeenth century non-published Mesnevi manuscript.