Mislî İsmâ'îl Hakkı and his Divan

In this study, the life, literary personality and divan of Mislî İsmâ?îl Hakkı, who is one of the 19th century poets and where Divan literature struggled to survive was handled.Mislî İsmâ?îl Hakkı, whom we do not know much about him, died in Istanbul. He is probably one of the disciples of Istanbul Beşiktaş Mevlevihanesi (lodge used by mevlevi dervishes)The only known work of Mislî İsmâ?îl Hakkı is Divan. The only copy of the Divan takes place in the Library of Istanbul University, Turkish Manuscripts Departmant and is registered in Number 318. It consists of 127 pages. According to Istanbul University records, this copy is a müellif hattı (the copy was written by poet himself). Our study was performed through this müellif hattı.Our study consists of three sections:Section 1: It consists of poet?s life, his literary personality and Divan. The section called literary personality was handled in terms of information gained from poet?s Divan.Section 2: It consists of examination of form and content of the Divan. In this section, The elements such as versification, prosody, rhyme were scrutinized and information gained were shown in graphics and tables in order to make it understandable. The elements that are salient were scrutinized in content. As the poet is a Mevlevi, he emphasized on Mevlevism, letter symbolism, Hz. Ali, Hz. Hasan, Hz. Hüseyin, Ahl Al-Bayt, the love for Twelve Imams, Karbala. Besides, at the end of this section, chapters such as conclusion, references and the process followed during the formation of the text.Section 3 and the last section: They consist of the transcription of Divan and index. As the Divan is the only copy and written by poet himself, the text was not reviewed. The grading of the poems was not changed at all; however, some explanations about versification were stated in footnotes. The verses and clauses of every poem part were numbered in themselves and all prosodies of the poems were given. Besides these, the page numbers of the poems were written in bold at the end of the text. The problems with prosody were stated in footnote. The versicle, hadith and expressions taking place in the text were written in italic and their meanings were given in footnotes. Furthermore, at the end of this section, there is a large index of the Divan.