Concept of lunacy in classic Turkish literature anthologies of Fuzûlî, Nâ?ilî, Fehîm-i Kadîm, Şeyh Gâlib and Fuzûlî?s ?Leylâ vü Mecnûn? mesnevî)

Word reportoire of Classic Turkish Literature in which the idea of sufism is dominant makes up of everyday language words defining items and cases of material world. This situation originates from sufistic senses into the words of everyday language. So that most of the everyday language words used in Classic Turkish Literature, have mystic senses lying under their apparent senses. In Classic Turkish Literature using aim of lunacy concept reflexes this feature literally.In Classic Turkish Literature lunacy concept is used to define two very different even opposite situations. First one of these is lunacy including all the human beings except the ones defining the phrase of ?duality? as having no connection with the real meaning of lunacy but as a result of existense and the ones who struggled and got out of lunacy.The second one is lunacy which is the common subject of medicine and faith, closely related to the real meaning of lunacy appeared as a result of love, we face off this lunacy as a process composing of two kind of lunacy that the first one makes the second possible or the second one lays the basis of the first. It has two senses as apparent and mystic. It can be reached struggling. And at the same time it defines ?the lover? concept appearing with a different identity in Classic Turkish Literature. This lunacy given in the body of Leylâ and Mecnûn in the Fuzûlî?s ?Leylâ vü Mecnûn? work composes of two phases.It is possible to see word repetitions oftenly in the poems of poets who told them with restricted materials. This word repetitions can be seen mostly as a result of restricted word reportoire of Classic Turkish Literature. But sometimes this word repetitions can have hints about poets lives or character making this repetitions.With this study background sense of ?lunacy? concept which is the common subject of Classic Turkish Literature is stressed. And it is tried to determine the relation and paralellism between lunacy and Fehîm-i Kadîm?s life and character who oftenly uses words in axis of lunacy in his poems.Key Words: Intelligence, love, lunatic, lunacy, Leylâ, Mecnûn