Sheikh Şa'bân-i Velî of Kastamonu, One of the Followers of Sheikh Ibrahım Zâhid-i Gîlânî's Irfan School

Sheikh Zâhid-i Gîlânî, one of the great Sufis who grew up in the Turkish geography of Azerbaijan, has a great place in Anatolian Sufi culture. The Sufis educated by this person also migrated to Anatolia and contributed to the spread of the Khalveti sect there. One of the followers of the Sufi thought that spread as a result of the activities of Sheikh Zahid's khalifas in Anatolia was Sheikh Şa'bân-ı Velî (d.1569). This person, who was born in Kastamonu in the last quarter of the 15th century, received his high madrasa education in Istanbul, later matured under the Sufi training of Konrapalı Hayreddin Efendi, who had a dervish lodge around Bolu, and was given the duty of guidance in his hometown, Kastamonu. Şa'bân-ı Velî gave lectures in different dervish lodges in Kastamonu and trained students and khalifas. In this study, brief information is given about Sheikh Zahid's understanding of Sufi thought, the life and legends of Şa'bân-ı Velî, who laid the foundations of Şa'bâniyya in Kastamonu two and a half centuries later, are examined, and the roles of these two great Sufis in Turkish-Islamic Sufism life are discussed. Keywords: Sufism Life, Khalvetiyya, Şa'bâniyya, Kastamonu, Azerbaijan.