SAYYID MAHMOUD KHAYRANI HAS A VERY IMPORTANT PLACE BETWEEN THE MYSTIC DERVISH’S AND MUSLIM SAINTS.WE CAN HANDLE WITH THIS IMPORTANCS FROM TWO ASPECTS.FIRST,THERE STILL ARE LARGE GROUPS HAVING ALLEGIANCE TO HIM IN ANATOLIA.HE WAS THOUGHT TO BE SAYYID MAHMOUD-I KABIR IN THE LINEAGE OF KUREYSHAN IN TUNCELİ.THIS IS STILL BELIEVED IN THE ORAL TRADITION OF THE REGION’S CULTURE.AND SECOND IS HIS ROLE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GREAT WISE MAN.WE DO NOT KNOW HIS DATE OF BORN FOR CERTAIN,BUT THERE IS THE DATE OF A.D. 1268 IN HIS GRAVESTONE IN SULTAN MOUNTAIN NEAR THE CITY OF AKSEHIR.THE DATE SHOWS THAT HE IS AMONG THE FIRST BELIEF\RELIGIOUS LEADERS COMING TO ANATOLIA.IT IS ALSO CLAIMED THAT HE WAS A RELATIVE OF HAJJI BEKTASH’S WELAYETNAME IT IS SAID THAT TWO SAINTS WRE MEET IN THE REGION TODAY KNOWN AS HAJJI BEKTASH KHAYRANI’S MAUSOLEUM IS AMONG THE BEST ARTWORKS OF 13TH CENTURY.THE SARCOPHAGUS OVER HIS TOMB IS BEING EXHIBITING IN ISLAMIC ARTWORKS MUSEUM IN COPENHAGEDN. SULTAN OF THE TERM ALAADDIN KEYKUBAT,WHO HEARS ABOUT THE MIRACLES SHOWN BY SAYYID MAHMOUD KHAYRANI,SENDS TWO OF HIS GENDARMERIES TO DERSIN(AN OLD NAME FOR EASTERN ANOTOLAIN CITY OF TUNCELI)MOUNTAINS,TO INVITE KHAYRANI TO THE BARRACKS IN ELAZIĞ LOWLANDS.SENDING HIS MEN,ALAADDIN KEYKUBAT THINKS, “IF KHAYRANI IS A REAL SAINT THAN HE SHALL BRING WHAT I WISH TO GET.”SETTING OUT TO GO TO KEYKUBAT’S PLACE IN JANUARY,KHAYRANI PASSES THE RIVER EUPHRATES OVER HIS COARSE WOOLEN CLOTHE AND DIP HIS HAND TO THE COLD WATERS OF THE RIVER AND TAKES OUT A BUNCH OF GRAPES.KHAYRANI GUESSES THAT THE SULTAN IS WISHING TO EAT A SUMMER FRIUT.SULTAN KEYKUBAT,WHO SEES KHAYRANI WITH A BUNCH OF GRAPES IN HIS HAND,EMBRACES HIM WITH DEVOTION AND SAYS, “YOU BROUGHT WHAT I WISH TO HAVE.”