Ömer Fuadi's life, his works, his literary personality and his work called Bülbüliyye's text

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study, which we prepared as a master thesis, is to determine the place of Ömer Fuâdî in literary world in scientific limite and to learn text publishing methods. Ömer Fuâdî, who lived between 1560 and 1636, is a poet and an author from Kastamonu. He is a mystic poet, who used his art to be useful to the society in his nearly 30 works, which he wrote during his 76 year life. Among his works, which have literary value, 'Bülbüliyye' whose critical text we prepared is the most important one. In the work, which is about love and unity, the birds, which are disturbed by the love of nightingale, completing the nightingale with various slanders to prophet Süleyman are told. Bülbüliyye which is one of the few works written in this kind, has got an important place since it made Classical Ottoman Poetry come closer to society through Tekke Literature. The first part of this thesis, which has got five parte totally, is about his life and works, the second one is about his literary - mysticism character, the third one is about general information about Bülbüliyye, the manuscripts and their description and evaluation, the fourth one is about critical text and the last one is about bibliography.