Collected poems of Azbi Baba (study-text)

ABSTRACT The subject of this study is Azbî Baba and his poems, which has not been studied in detailed yet. Azbî, who lived second half of the 17* century and first half of the 18th century as a Bektashi's Dervish, wrote his poems on the religious-sufistic subjects. The result which we extracted from his poems is that he was a poet of creature's unity. God is the only real presence in whole universe. Other presences are his essence's manifestation. In this comprehension, poet sees God in everything. The comprehension of "extreme love towards human beings", which was suggested in his poems, is a result of this view. Because loving creatures means loving God. His poems was inspired also from the loves of Kur'ân, Prophet, the Prophet's femily and Twelve İmam. Main subjects of Bektashi's poems are devotion of Hz. Ali, Hasan, Hüseyin, other imams and Hacı Bektash Veli. Azbî Baba wrote his poems on this subjects. Because he took part in this tradition. In this study, was used four manuscripts and was tried for the most similar manuscript of writer. Moreover, the text was scanned from top to bottom, and was formed an index which consist of religious-sufistic concepts and concepts concerned with these.