TEXTUAL AND PALEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF MANUSCRIPT COPIES OF THE COLLECTION "RESAYEL" BY SEYID YAHYA SHIRVANI-BAKUVI (IN THE EXAMPLE OF MANUSCRIPTS TAKEN FROM BAKU AND MANISA BOOK LIBRARIES)

 Until the end of the 20th century, Sufi literature was, for a number of reasons, one of the topics that remained outside the field of attention of researchers. Only in recent decades has the topic of Sufi orders, their emergence, and development begun to attract interest both among scholars and a wide audience of admirers of Eastern literature and philosophy. It can be confidently said that this interest has grown against the backdrop of a crisis in moral values.

The collection of the Institute of Manuscripts of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan holds the only copy of the philosophical heritage of one of the founders of the Sufi order Khalwati - Seyid Yahya Shirvani-Bakuvi. The manuscript, entitled “Resayel”, contains 10 treatises and 20 lyrical poems of religious and philosophical content. There are about 10 “Resayel” manuscripts kept in Türkiye. In this article, we will conduct a textual analysis of the Baku copy and the manuscript preserved in the city of Manisa, as well as examine the reasons behind certain distortions in the texts of medieval manuscripts.