Muhyiddin Abdal`s Divan

Muhyiddin Abdal lived in the 16"1 century. He is from Aydın and lived in Edime and Baîkans. He is buried on the "Muhittin Baba Hill" which is between Hacidanishment and Vaysal villages belonging to Lalapasha district in Edime. He is considered one of the two most important Kalenderi-Bektashi poets of his age. His poems which were recollected by Kalenderi-Bektashi dervishes were collected in "Muhyiddin Abdal Divanı" after they were transferred orally from one language to another for a while. Six copies of "Muhyiddin Abdal Divanı" were discovered. 275 poems belongong to Muhyiddin Abdal were discovered in our investigations. These poems have the characteristics of "anonyumous folk poems", "saz poems" and "classical poems". The language of the poet has the characteristics of old Anatolian Turkish in the. period of Ottoman. Aparat from the easily understandable language which Oguz/Yörük Turks spoke there are also some words and compounds borrowed from Arabic and Persion languages to meet the need of religious and myustic concepts. Although if s maintained that the poet was illiterate, we can say that he knew Turkish, Arabic and Persion, and was educated well, apart from these, he was a figure who had the knowledge of mystic doctrines. There is a significant place of these doctrines in Muhyiddin Abdal's poems who is a Kalenderi- Bektashi- Hurufi poet. His age is a transition period during which changing from Kalenderizm to Bektashizm was not completed thoroughly and Hurufizm become more effective among the groups of Kalenderi- Bektashi. Muhyiddin Abdal Divanı is source work especially about Kalenderi- Bektashi- Hurufi doctrines. The analysis of this important work gives us precious materials not only for the history of our literature but also for the investigations in the fields of sociology and cultural history. With this study that we conducted on Muhyiddin Abdal's Divan who is one of the most important Kalenderi- Bektashi- Hurufi poets in the 16"1 century during which Ottoman Empire was on the top of its elevantion by spreading on to three continents, the life of the poet and his poems as a text with criticism were brought into public view as a whole with its beauty and thought.