Abdulmecid Sivasi's Şerh-i Cezire-i Mesnevi (text-study) and Turkish commentaries of Yusuf-i Sinecak's Cezire-i Mesnevi (Comparison-simplified joint text)

Abdülmecid Sivasî (M. 1563-1639) who lived almost a century from the middle of XVI. century until the beginning of the XVII. century and fit more than twenty works in this life, has been among the important personalities of the era with the sheikh and commentator qualification. Abdülmecid Sivasî's Şerh-i Cezîre-i Mathnawi is compared with other Turkish Cezire-i Mesnevi's commentaries in the present study whose name is "Abdülmecid Sivasî's Şerh-i Cezîre-i Mathnawi (Text-Analysis) and Turkish Commentaries of Yusuf-i Sîneçâk's Cezire'i Mathnawi (Comparison-Simplified Joint Text)". Thus, creating a simplified joint text of Turkish Şerh-i Cezîre-i Mathnawis is intended. Abdülmecid Sivasî's life, literary personality, works, Cezîre-i Mathnawi's content, language and style features, information about the commentary methods are given in the first part of three chapters. In the second part, a full text has been revealed by transcribing Abdülmecid Sivasî's Şerh-i Cezîre-i Mathnawi. The simplified joint text has been prepared and compared with other Turkish Şerh-i Cezîre-i Mathnawis in the third part. Key Words: commentary, Şerh-i Cezîre-i Mathnawi, Abdulmecid Sivasî, Şeyhî, text criticism