Sheikh Musharraf al-Hunuki and his Arabic poetical letters

Sheikh Musharraf was born in Güleçler (Hunûk) village of Pervari district of Siirt. He received education from prominent and prestigious scholars of his own time at various madrassahs which were at Siirt and its surroundings. He came to fore at linguistic studies and Sufism. He was an outstanding scholar who devoted himself to religious service and Islamic sciences. Sheikh Musharraf educated hundreds of students and wrote more than 10 works. One of his works is Diwan. The subject of my thesis is the Arabic verse letters of Sheikh Musharraf, which constitute a large part of the Arabic section of his work named Diwan. Sheikh Musharraf wrote nearly four volumes of letters in Kurdish, Persian and Turkish, but mostly in Arabic. He wrote his letters in three different forms: prose, verse and verse-prose. Sheikh Musharraf has sent two hundred and fifty letters which he wrote in poetical form to seventy-five different people.The subjects of Sheikh Musharraf's poetical letters are mostly praise/commendation, coronach/elegy, condolence/sympathies and gratulation/congratulation. Sheikh Musharraf's letters begin with expressions such as giving glory to Allah, using prepositions (huruf al-jarr), using verbs, vowing, greetings, vocative particle (harf an-nida), etc. In the transition from the introduction to the body, he uses expressions such as وبعد "" ،"وقد" ، واني اهنئ" to make connection with the topic. He ends his letter with giving glory to Allah, salawat, invocation, supplication, seeking for forgiveness from Allah and date.