ʽAbdullâh Ṣāfī, Dīvān (analysis-text)

After adhering to Islam, the Turks have been influenced by that civilization, and then they have become a strong defender and representative of it. Islamic civilization have had significant political, cultural, social, life style and so on effects on the Turks. One of the most significant effects has been realized in literary field. Thus a literature has been created in which the senses, the thoughts, the worldviews, the pleasures and the dreams of Ottoman society existed for six centuries having many examples of it, were reflected. It is crucial to know thouroghly our past and our literature which was formed in the past so as to look to the future more consciously and confidently. As a natural result of this, literary works belonged to our past must be studied by making them contemporary. In this study, we have attempted to find out the life of Sâfî, one of the 19th century poets using the pseudonym of Sâfî whereas his real name was Abdullah whose father was Mehmet Efendi known as Molla Derviş-one of the prominent scholars of the age-, born in Kale-Meydan district of Kirkuk in 1241/1809, and also to identify the form and content features of his poems which had been written by his own handwriting after translating them into Latin letters with transcription. In the first section of our study, the information about the life of Sâfî, his literary literary personality and his works given. In the second section the examination of his poems, which are the basis of our study, in terms of form and content. In the third section, following the transcription of the poems, " the conclusion part ", in which our impressions and deductions t from our studies take part and then the alphabetically ordered "bibliography part" in which the sources we have benefited from during the course of our study and finally the systamatic index take place.