Şeyhülislâm Yahyâ Tevfîk Efendi and his Turkish poems investigation-comparative text

Turkish poems (poetry) of Şeyhülislâm Yahyâ Tevfik Efendi review and comparative text, doctorate(postgraduate) paper, Malatya 2010.With the tradition of classical turkish literature which continues throughout the centuries, many poets were brought up. Some of these , by using poetry talent at maximum rate, left traces which can not be erased from memories. This kind of poets are the first class poets called by collector of biographies. Also besides these, there are many unknown poets. This kind of poets occupy a big place in the literary history of turkish society. We must introduce this kind of poets to our literary and cultural world to understand and evaluate all the aspects of classical turkish literature.From this point of view this paper was prepared on the poems written by Şeyhülislâm Yahyâ Tevfik Efendi who lived in 18th century and promoted to shaykh al-islam degree.The work consists of four parts. In The first part some information is given about the life , literary aspects and work of the poet. It is seen that Yahyâ Tevfik Efendi is not a creative poet who has original views and dreams unique to him in detections by handling his poems. The Poet ,at first, followed Nabi who is considered as the master of hikemi style in 17th century, but in terms of way of speaking he couldn?t catch the harmony in the poems of Nabi. The poet gave importance to historical poems, this is very important in terms of witnessing his own era.In the second part the form features of the poems were handled.In the third part, the analysis of the poems in ?divan? was done. This analysis includes four main titles as ?religion and tasavvuf (islamic philosophy)?, ?society and culture?, ?human? , ?nature and object? .In the fourth part copies of divan were told, and then the way of forming process of comparative texts is indicated and divan text is presented. As divan is not regular, according to classical divan some arrangements were done.Keywords:Divan- shaykh al-islam Yahyâ Tevfik- 18th century- hikemi-analysis