A 17th CENTURY MAWLAWİ POET SELÎMÎ DEDE AND HIS DÎVÂNÇE

Classical Turkish literature is a period that has been represented very strongly with thousands of artists and works in a very wide geography for more than six centuries and has an exceptional place in Turkish literature. Academic studies on the works of literature of this period continue unabated and a new artist or work is encountered every day. The subject of this study is the 17th century poet Selîmî Dede and his Dîvânçe, about whose life and works there is not much information. There are verse and prose works of Selîmî Dede in the cönk named Mecmûʻa-i Âsâr, registered in Istanbul University Rare Works Library Turkish Manuscripts 09288. One of this verse works is the poet's Divânçe. The work, which contains 42 poems in total, is between 36a-43a of the manuscript in question. In the introductory part of the study, the physical characteristics of the cönk are mentioned. In the first part, information about the poet's biography is shared, while in the second part, information about the poet's works is given. The main subject of the study Dîvânçe, is analyzed in more detail in the third chapter under the headings of Form, Language and Style Features and Content Features. The translated text of Dîvânçe is given in the fourth chapter. In the conclusion section, it is stated that the poems in the Dîvânçe of Selîmî Dede, a Mawlawi poet who lived in the 17th century, can be evaluated as a product of religious- sufistic Turkish literature. However, it is underlined that the poet also benefited from the prose technique, meaning and imagination of classical Turkish literature.