THE TRADITION OF GIVING CALIPHATE IN THE SECTS

Abstract

Due to the fact that the continuity of sect organization, its force and diffussion process of a great populace are directly related to the tradition of giving caliphate, in order to make sense of hierarchical system and organizational structure of sect, and to reveal the function and force in the community and among the other organization of sect, aspects of religious-sufistic of this tradition requires to be analyzed with dimensions of sociologic and psychologic. To make a deeply and inclusive study about this subject is dependent on examining this tradition in the forms of implementation and perception in all sects. In this article, written up with the aim of prologuizing such a long-termed study, the tradition of giving caliphate in the sect of Bayrami-?emsi is dealt with and the written texts are used as materials. In this study, within the information that written texts give, the basis of this tradition based on Islamic framework, the conditions and the times of being caliphate, what caliphate is symbolized and the tradition that undertakes especially functions of organizational structure are dealt with. As a result, it is reached the findings that being related to these conditions, a certain type of people is idealized in the organization and at the same time in the community, as this implementation being so important for the continuity of organizational structure regardless of coincidence is attached to certain conditions, this tradition, by being based upon a divine basis is provided sacredness and composed legitimacy platform.