Journal Name:
- Uşak Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
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Abstract (2. Language):
Menakibnames, the written sources of the legendary life of the Prophet, and of Muslim saints (i.e evliya and enbiya), include some recurring miracles called mucize or miracles of the Prophet, and keramet, miracle of the saint, which can also be found in the oral discourse of the Anatolian Babas and Dedes.
In folklore studies such recurring small entities which can easily be identified and can not be further divided are called motifs. Such motifs can be found in folk tale, legend, anecdote, ballade, epic and so on.
Since the turn of the 19th century folklorists tried to discover the historical and geographical origins and dissemination of folk tales by means of studying motifs. Religious studies, especially the study of contemporary religious history also find the keramet useful to detect the historical basis and the origin and diffusion of the related legend. This common objective of the two fields suggested to me, as a folklorist, that I should apply the finding of the folklore research in this area to religious studies.
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