Muḥammad Ma'rūf al-Ṭrābzonī's Sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-Tā'iyyah (Text-analysıs)

Ibn al-Fāriż has several poems explained and translated in the Turkish language; such as: " al-Tā'iyyah ", " al-Rā'iyyah " and " al-Khamriyyah". In addition to Ibn Ibn al-Fāriż's poem called " al-Tā'iyyah al-Qubrā " or "Nazm al-sulouk" was first explained in the turkish language by Muhammad Ma'rūf al-Trābzonī in his book named "Sharh al-Qasīdah al-Tā'iyyah". This poem has depicted Ibn al-Fāriż's spiritual journey and his moral ascension. At the first place, this study is mainly about to make a conversion on the commentary of the poem" al-Tā'iyyah al-Qubrā" into the latin letters, then to analyze the commentary and to display its characteristics that consist of: introduction, results and four major parts. This study begins with an introduction that demonstrates in it Ibn al-Fāriż's high value in the Turkish commentaries. Then the study's goals, importance and techniques has also been clarified. the first part of the study; gives some information about Ibn al-Fāriż's life and divan and talks about the major subject of the study which is the poem "al-Tā'iyyah al-Qubrā"; it's commentaries and translations in Arabic, Parsee, and Turkish. The second part of the study has collected the whole information in different sources and references about the writer of the commentary, it also wrote his biography corresponding with the information given. Thereafter the commentary has been studied and analyzed to display its content and the technique through different subtitles as sources and references has also been studied while they have relied on them in explaining and narrating. The last part in the study has described the only copy. Final chapter of our work comprises of the actual text of the said commentary converted from Arabic script to the Latin script. The copy of the text present in Süleymaniye Library, Nuruosmaniye section with reference no (4007/1) has been adopted as base for reading.