Ahî Dâ'î and his Turkish poetic work: Futuwwatnâme-i Tarsûsî (Analysis-text)

The thesis aims at analysing Fütüvvetnâme-iTarsûsî, which can be accepted as a review of Ahi idea that still maintained its validity at Anatolia under Ottoman Empire during 15th century. There is not enough biographical information about the author, AhîDâ'î. However,the work with a single copy has common features with other poetic works which are called fütüvvetnâmewhile it demonstrates a different and unique character by mainly discussing the sufic elements such as excerpts from verses, hadiths, and the Masnavi, anecdotes about Prophets, the sheikh and disciple manners. This study also give information about the Futuwwa and Ahi concepts and their history, general information regarding the contact with various sects, and then, the printed and handwritten works called fütüvvetnâmewhich are written in different languages as prose or verse. Within the main frame of this study, firstly AhîDâ'î and Fütüvvetnâme-iTarsûsî are introduced, and then, the mentioned work is analysed in the context of religious and sufic concepts and subjects by discoursing the concepts about rules and conventions of Futuwwa. This thesis also aims to make a significant contribution to the history of Sufism in general, and the works of Futuwwa and Ahi fields in particular, and also because it has not been discussed in any earlier work, the text of the work with a single copy is discussed after being transferred to the today's Turkish alphabet.