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    Knowledge via the embodiment of duality the intellect and the heart in the works of Oğlan Şeyh İbrahim Efendi
    (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2019) Toker, Hilal; Oktay Uslu, Zeynep
    The aim of this study is to examine and research how act of knowing is possible, which Oğlan Şeyh Ibrahim Efendi, a 17th century Sufi poet, considers as one of the most important ways to reach the truth, in parallel of his works and in the light of paradoxical discourse he uses in these works. The investigation of whether knowing is possible through the intellect or the heart provides a basis for the debate of knowledge via the embodiment of duality. When we study the corpus of İbrahim Efendi, we see that not only knowing but also the actor of knowing, the object of knowing and the universe in which this act of knowing happens are touched by the duality. The human who first needs to know oneself towards God’s wish to be known, should comprehend the only thing that can be known is the existence of God. It is because all the existent including his/her own self which man witnesses in the universe are the manifestation of God’s Names and Attributes. Only when man perceives that all the dualities are the opportunities bringing man to the unity by understanding the compulsory nature of the duality, man can experience knowing through the heart beyond the intellect and approach the truth. One of the main reasons of having discussion in the axis of duality in the thesis stems from the paradoxical discourse which İbrahim Efendi prefers to use in his works. When İbrahim Efendi describes something in his works, first he describes what that thing is not. In this way, he puts the reader into the duality. With the guidance of İbrahim Efendi’s paradoxical narrative, this thesis aims to comprehend such concepts as the existence, the knowledge, the heart and the truth with their knowledge of what they are not. These concepts are examined with the close-reading method and the content are supported by the multidisciplinary approach with the help of history, literature, philosophy and philology. Therefore, we conclude that man can reach the truth through knowing and this knowledge is attained via the heart in İbrahim Efendi’s view, after examining the works of İbrahim Efendi. Yet, knowing is not just a theoretic achievement, instead, it is a practical process.