Larendeli Şani?s Gülşen-i Efkar (analysis-text)

In this thesis, it is subjected a religious masnavi titled Gülşen-i Efkar written by Larendeli Şani who lived between second half of the sixteenth century and early seventeenth century.In the "Introduction" section, the artist's life and literal personality has been handeled, then Şani?s works have been introduced. The next chapter we focused on the formal characteristics of the work. In the next section contains the properties of language and expression of the artist and how Şani captured the diversity of expression and the success in using the language have been studied. Next section titled with content features, Gülşen-i Efkar?s subject, summary, persons, information about space and time are given. At the conclusion, we tried an assessment on the basis of the points we've found about Şani and Gülşen-i Efkar. The text on which we studied is given with its method of transcription. Also, several information about copies of the text based on our work is given. Masnavi?s trancription was added to final section of thesis.