Ahî Evran Museum

Akhi or brotherhood, which could also be described as the beginning of the Turkish Islamic Guild Movement has served as a social institution that unified various social fractions in itself, such as artisans, traders, scholars and lawmakers, in the Seljuki era where Anatolia was being Islamized and Turkified.

While the traces of this organization, whose influence has lasted for generations, are told in religious, political, economic and sociological perspectives in the Ahi Evran Complex and Museum, the role of this deep-rooted institution in production, both its labor power and the experience and aesthetic understanding it relies on were conveyed through the exhibited objects. The project was built on the concept of “Four Doors”, consisting of “Sharia, Tariqah, Haqiqa and Marifa”, on which Akhism is based religiously, philosophically and morally.

In that regard, the project prepared in 2018 aimed to convey a work ethic inherited from centuries of accumulation in Turkish working life and its acculturation.