Şeyh Alisultan Cami

Beautiful

Beautiful Mosque

Prayer room

A restored tomb is located in the Celtek neighbourhood.

Sheikh Ali Alaaddin Samarkandi is one of the great saints who lived in Anatolia during the foundation years of the Ottoman state. He has a lineage that reached our Prophet (S.A.V.). Originally from Şirvan, he is the son of Seyyid Yahya-i Şirvani, who later immigrated to Samarkand. He memorized the Quran at the age of seven and started studying positive sciences and religious sciences. After studying science and culture centers such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent, he started the interpretation of the Quran at the age of 17. He went to Hejaz with his father at the age of 20, after fulfilling the pilgrimage duty, he stayed in Hejaz upon his father's approval and learned Arabic perfectly during his stay here. In order to increase his knowledge, he went to Egypt, Damascus and Baghdad after the Hijaz and took various lessons from the scholars there and increased his knowledge. After wandering in Arab countries for many years, he returned to his father and stopped by Samarkand upon his father's request to inform the people. He went to Hejaz again after a dream he saw in Samarkand and stayed in Medina-i Münevvere and worked as a shrine in Ravza-i Mutahhara. While in Medina, Hz. On a spiritual order from the Prophet. That day, he came to Zeyne, the land of Karaman, and settled here. After coming to Zeyne, Karamanoğlu ll. İbrahim Bey is invited to Karaman and asked to create a circle of knowledge in Karaman. He stayed in Karaman for 30 years and both taught science and started to write the commentary called Bahr-ul Ulum. After writing four volumes of his commentary, when he realized that he was getting old and that his death was approaching, he took permission and returned to Zeyne again. In AD 1450, when he was 170 years old in Zeyne (Sütlüce) Town, which was connected to Karaman, he died in 860 Hijri. His grave is in Zeyne. It is the complex and mosque in Kazalpa (Gazi Alp) district in Karaman, the lodge and place when he stayed in Karaman. The grave in the courtyard of the mosque belongs to Sheikh Ali, his grandson. Sheikh Ali H.1008 passed away in AD.1599. Sheikh Ali was a sheikh belonging to the sultan Naqshbandi order. He never inclined towards the world, escaped violently from the forbidden and abandoned even more permissible ones. He would perform the morning prayer in the Kaaba by holding the foal with the power of God Almighty and returning to his house before sunrise. In the morning, he would teach and write to his students about the sciences of the genius and batin. He used to make ghusl wudu before interpreting each verse of the Quran, and then he started to interpret.