Literary analysis of Imam Shafi'i's Divan

Imam Shafi'i is an important figure in Islamic jurisprudence, but he is also an important figure in literature and poetry. Most of the researches on him pay attention to his jurisprudence but neglect his literary personality. He is always praised by Arabic grammarians and literary scholars. In his poems, he conveys the issues he deals with to all parts of the society. The underlying reason for this is that he used an understandable and simple language in his poems. The influence of the Qur'an, literature, hadith and language education is clearly felt in his poems. While creating his poems, he is sensitive in the choice of words and draws the reader towards the layers of meaning in his poems. The subjects in Imam Shafi'i's poems have a wide range. The subjects he deals with in his poems cover different areas such as life experiences, faith, morality, morality, advice, science, and mysticism. These different fields show us that he internalised the understanding of art for both society and human beings. This study consists of three parts. In the first part; Imam Shafi'i's scientific life, literary personality and his works are discussed. In the second part; the introduction of the divan and the examination of the subject structure, and in the third part, the literary analysis of the divan is included in the study. The poems selected from Imam Shafi'i's divan are analysed in terms of rhetorical sciences. In other words, the aim of this study is to analyse the literary arts in Imam Shafi'i's poems in order to get to know the science of rhetoric, the sciences of meânî, declaration and bedî' that constitute this science and to show the subjects of these sciences practically. The study in question consists of literature and source scanning methods. The literary analyses of the poems selected from the divan and the ways of analysis are made by taking into account the sources related to the science of eloquence. At the end of the study, both Imam Shafi'i's scientific life, literary personality, his works, his divan, and the various literary arts he used in his poems and how they were applied are included.