Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
CUMHURIYET ILAHIYAT DERGISI-CUMHURIYET THEOLOGY JOURNAL, cilt.22, sa.1, ss.435-466, 2018 (ESCI)
Suyolcu-zade Nahri Ahmad (d. 1182/1768-1769) was an important sufi poet being a member of Isma'il Rumi branch, the sect of Qadiriyya. He carried out the duty of spiritual and ethical guidance at Qadiriyya Lodge in Tekirdag. Besides his sufi character, he was a poet having an extensive knowledge about the theoretical and aesthetical bases of Diwan literature. The only original copy of Nahri's Diwance including his poems registered in the Vatican Library, Turkish Manuscripts, nr. 235. There are forty-five Turkish, twelve Arabic and three Persian poems by Nahri in this copy. The goal of this article is to present the formal and contextual features of Nahri's poems in Diwance in the light of the analysis on some poems that we chose. Any study was not found about the poet's life and poems in the literature review we made. In this study, poems are classified according to the verse form and the language, and the number of couplets, type of prosody, form, style and content of the chosen poems are evaluated accordingly. This study has importance in terms of providing insight about the Religious-Sufistic belief in the region and period of Nahri Ahmad who was a sufi poet and a member of Qadiriyya sect. In addition, the study gives information about many important influencers of the period, particularly Niyazi-i Misri and inform the readers about these influencers' and sufis' effects on Nahri's poems and ideas. The study also makes contribution to determining literary-sufistic terminology of 18th century.