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Kutadgu Bilig which is accepted as a first siyasetname of Turk-Islam literature is not just an advice book and it is also not a didactic religion book. Yusuf Has Hacip, the writer of the book, aimed to create a life philosophy which makes human beings to be happy on earth and afterlife. When the background of the book is analyzed, decisiveness of the system of Islamic essences is noticed. Studying the book completely under this perspective goes beyond this work. Because of that, this paper is aimed to study death and the belief of afterlife which are the basic notions of life philosophy and the reference points that formalize these notions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Haşabiyya state, as far as the available sources (transmitted by Mas'udi, Muruj al-da- hahab and al-Dahahabi,Tarik al-islam) tell us, was founded in Nişibin by some adherents of al-Mukhtar after his death, at one time counting about 2000 horsemen. İts declared İmam was Muhammed İbn al-Hanefiyya, and his son Hasan was its leader at one time. it was fought by the Zubayrids at first and was finally defeated by 'Abdalmalik b.Marwan in 71/690. Hasan b. Muhammed b. Hanefiyya was their own contemporary, living in Nişibin during the state of the Haşabiyya, and being a source of information as an eye-witnes at the Kitab al-İrja 'of al-Hasan b. Muhammed b. Hanefiyya. At the Kitab al-İrja', Hasan b. Muhammed b. Hanefiyya labeled them Saba'iyya. Mukhtariyya or Haşabiyya between the death of al-Mukhtar in 67/686 and the fall of their satate in Nişibin in 71/690 would have been called stage of Nişibin of Kaysaniyya. This study focuses to Nişibin period of Kaysaniyya. Furthermore, the paper aims to show the ideal and political effects on the Kaysaniyya history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]