CONTRIBUTIONS OF SHİHĀBEDDĪN ʿUMAR AL-SUHRAWARDĪ IN THE ORGANIZATION OF FUTUWWA FÜTÜVVETİN TEŞKİLATLANMASINDA ŞİHÂBEDDİN ÖMER ESSÜHREVERDÎ’NİN KATKILARI

youth, bravery, bravery, virility, brotherhood", futuwwa is a summary of the moral virtues that a Muslimshould acquire in the most general sense. Futuwwa requires prioritizing the interests of his religious brotherrather than his own self, worrying about people's problems, giving unexpected and unrequited favours andtreats, and seeing others as more important, valuable and respected than himself. Although it is possibleto trace its origins back to pre-Muslim times, futuwwa gained a religious content in the Islamic period,and their adoption of similar moral teachings enabled the ṣūfīs to embrace futuwwa. The people of Ṣūfismhave completely disguised futuwwa by isolating it from its non-Islamic manifestations. In the historicalprocess, the official identity of the futuwwa organization coincides with the period of Abbasid Caliph Nāsırli-Dīnillāh. Seeing the Futuwwa troops as a great power, the Caliph Nāsır aimed to restore the political andsocial authority of the state through this organization. In this way, he brought together the futuwwa groups,which lacked a central administration and sometimes attempted rebellion movements and enabled thefutuwwa to turn into an official institution of the state and an organization. The contribution of ShihābeddīnʿUmar al-Suhrawardī, who advised Caliph Nāsır in many ways, in the organization of the futuwwa cannotbe denied. Due to her reputation with the Caliph Nāsır, Suhrawardī served as an embassy in the activitiescarried out in order to gain an institutional dimension for futuwwa. In addition, the work called Risālatu'lfutuwwa,in which he explains the basic principles of futuwwa and tries to build a theoretical ground, isevaluated in the provision of the first regulation on futuwwa in the Islamic geography. This study aimsto deal with the futuwwa structure, which forms the basis of Akhism, in line with the political, religiousand socio-cultural background of the period. In this context, the activities put forward in the process ofinstitutionalization of futuwwa and the central place of Caliph Nāsır and Shihābeddīn ʿUmar al-Suhrawardīin this process will be determined.Keywords: Ṣūfism, Futuwwa, Akhism, Caliph Nāsir, Shihābeddīn ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī.