Abdulaziz al-Zamzami and his Divan

This study named "Abdulaziz ez-Zemzemî and his Dîvân", the life of Abdulaziz al-Zamzami (d. 976/1568), one of the Arab poets of the Ottoman Period, and his poetries in his Divan in terms of their contentuel and formal properties. The study consists of an introduction and three chapters. The introduction gives a general description about the social, political and cultural situation in Mecca and the Hijaz in the 16th century, where al-Zamzami lived. The first chapter deals with the poet's life, his books and his literary identity. In the second chapter we attempt to analyze al-Zamzami's poetry in point of contents. In the third chapter poems of al-Zamzami are evaluated with the point of form and language. With the headlines, like composition of qaside and sentences, vocabulary, techniques of presentations, we tried to determine quality of his poetic. Abdulaziz al-Zamzami wrote poems on praise, in praise of the Prophet and ikhwaneyat etc. Because many of his poems had religious theme, he generally used religious concepts in his poems. Language of the poet is unsophisticated and fluent. His literary arts made his poetry literarily rich.