Abstract:

Each religion has it’s own sacred places. It is believed that visiting these places will give an eternal life to the person. Therefore, all kinds of difficulties on pilgrimage routes were taken into consideration, and pilgrimage groups went on these journeys to perform their worship at certain times of the year. These problems, which are mostly related to the limited transportation possibilities in the past, have changed with the developing technology today and mostly have been eliminated. Nowadays, pilgrim candidates can make their visits easier. Mecca, where pilgrimage was performed in Islam, and Madinah, also known as the city of Mohammed, is the most important city that Muslims want to go for centuries by taking all the difficulties. Along with these holy cities, the way other pilgrimages and places are seen determines the way pilgrimage routes are arranged. "Menazil" type works provide important information about the routes followed throughout history. Apart from this, other works that contain the content of the pilgrimage (menasik) shed light on the pilgrimage understanding and journey of the past. It is seen that among the works related to the pilgrimage, the most studies are done on literary pilgrimage travel books that can be grouped into four groups according to their content and writing purposes (Pilgrimage handbooks, guided pilgrimage travel books, memoirs and reports, literary travel books). Since the pilgrimage handbooks are written to give practical information, it has been realized that there has not been any research on this subject. However, it is possible to come across many elements of history and culture in such works. Although how to make the pilgrimage is in the foreground, these pilgrimage handbooks contain information about routes, places of visit, transportation, etc. In addition, the change of language and expression in these works that appeal to the public according to the periods is another subject that needs to be researched. In this direction, it is aimed to introduce and evaluate the printed work named Hacılara Yadigar in our study. "Mekka Medina Jidde Jerusalem Capital of Syria and Surre-i Humayun Scenes” was written on the cover of the work named Hacılara Yadigar, which consists of 12 pages, and the pages are divided into 3 columns. By evaluating the form, content, language and expression of this handbook, which also includes photographs, it was tried to observe how the pilgrimage of the period was carried out, what was paid attention to, what means of travel were used, what kind of suggestions were made to pilgrims, and which places were visited along the route. In addition, with this work, by presenting a sample that can be dated to the beginning of the 20th century, the necessity of collective evaluations on the subject has emerged. The course of the changes over the centuries in the preparation of such works is the subject of a separate research and requires collective evaluations about the pilgrimage handbooks.

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