WHO IS HADRATH HACI BAYRAM VELI? Hacı Bayram-I Veli, the Pir (head) of Bayramiyye, the first tariqa established by a Turkish tasavvuf researcher who was brought up in Anatolian lands, was brought into the world in Ankara in the primary portion of the XIV. century, during the rule of Orhan Ghazi, child of Osman Ghazi.
With the composition of Bursalı Mehmed Tahir (Hacı Bayram-ı Velî, Istanbul 1329), which passes on the data given by Taşköprizade, Mecdî Efendi, Sarı Abdullah Efendi and Ismâil Hakkı Bursevî, and Mehmed Ali Ayni’s profound and point by point book that doesn’t surpass the data in Bursalı Mehmed Tahir’s work.
(Hacı Bayram-ı Velî, Istanbul 1343), Fuat Bayramoğlu’s XVIII and XIX. Aside from his work (Hacı Bayram-ı Veli: Yaşamı-Soyu-Foundation, I-II, Ankara 1983), which contains the authority reports of the nineteenth century and is the result of a striking exertion, no genuine review has been done with regards to him in view of the analysis of the sources.
Different books expounded on Hacı Bayram-ı Velî comprise of the reiteration of restricted data in these works.