Kelâmî Dîvânı

Kelami Divanı was written by a poet Kelami Cihan Dede who had lived in Iraq in the 16th century. This work of literature, which contains 488 poems, is important for showing the literature life in Iraq, which was considered as the Otoman Empire?s distant geography. Our thesis is divided into three parts and these are; Kelami?s life, his personality and his works, characteristics of Divan?s form and content and Divan?s text and index. In the first part; Kelami?s life, personality and works has been tried to be find out by the help of his poems and historical sources. In the second part; the metres and rhymes, which are used according to the verse forms in poems, has been tried to be evaluated and also the elements which are foregrounded within the content of Divan has been tried to be evaluated one by one. In the third part; the text of Divan has been written through the transcription alphabet and it has been lined up in accordance with the classical divan arrangement. In the index part of the thesis, the names of the people and places are given. Since there is no other source apart from the one that is in Yapı Kredi Library, number 611, the thesis has been studied on a single copy