Kaygusuz Abdal's Mesnevi-i İsmişah (Analysis-text)

Kaygusuz Abdal is one of the poets of religious-sufistic folk literature who lived in the late 14th century and early 15th century according to some researchers and in the 15th century according to others. Kaygusuz Abdal used both minstrel literature and divan literature verse forms in his poems. His poems have been brought to the present day through field research, by being passed down from generation to generation in accordance with oral tradition or through academic studies, and although centuries have passed, Kaygusuz's poems are still being recited. There have been many researches and studies on the works of Kaygusuz, who has many works in verse, prose and mixed verse and prose. Abdurrahman Güzel is one of the leading names who has done comprehensive studies on Kaygusuz Abdal. In addition to Güzel, academic articles have been written on Kaygusuz Abdal's works and his perception of poetry, researches and graduate level studies have been conducted. One of these studies is related to Kaygusuz Abdal's masnavi, which is also the subject of our thesis. The study is Zeynep Oktay's Kaygusuz Abdal's Mesnevî-İ Baba Kaygusuz: Crıtıcal Edition and Textual Analysis is her master's thesis. The reason for taking this study of Oktay is that she compared the copies of Kaygusuz Abdal's mesnevis in her thesis. The manuscript that is the subject of our thesis is a copy of Kaygusuz's masnavi. This manuscript is in the Atatürk Library in Istanbul and at the end of the manuscript there is information that it was written at the end of the 19th century. The title of the manuscript is Kaygusuz Abdal Kaddesırru İsmişah. The statements at the end of the manuscript, Pīrim Hazret-i Hacı Hasan Mestan Şāh-ı Himmet ʿāliyuyla temām oldı and Eser hâmı kumrızâde Turmuş Al-Antaki, provide information about the manuscript's author. The manuscript analyzed in our thesis was compared with Abdurrahman Güzel and Zeynep Oktay's studies on Kaygusuz's masnavis in terms of couplet differences.At the same time, the text has been transcribed into Latin letters. The other parts of the thesis are the rhetorical arts, poetry types and folklore elements identified in the manuscript. Key Terms: Kaygusuz Abdal, masnavi, Ismisah, manuscript, folklor