Religion and Sufism in Ushshaki poetry

Sûfîsm, which is the sum of doctrines that respond to the spîritual and conscientious feelings and tendencies of the people, has emerged as a lifestyle based on "zühd" ideology in the Islamic civilization and culture basin, and has been treated as a school with its own system and rules. Sûfîsm has a terminology that has diversified since the first classes of Sûfîsm were formed. One of the areas where we see the reflections of the terminology of this religious science, which deals with the God-world-human relationship in both a theoretical, practical and philosophical style, is the divans drafted by Sûfî sheikhs. The Ushshaki sect, which was established by Hasan Hüsâmeddîn Ushshaki in the last quarter of the 16th century and has continued its activities until today, is one of the sects which has given the highest importance to the poetry, like the Khalwatiyya, where it originated from. In this sense, in addition to the divans of Cemâleddîn-i Ushshaki and Abdullah Salâhaddîn-i Ushshaki who are regarded as "Pîr" because of their role in the establishment of the doctrines of Ushshaki branch and expansion of the sect, and Ömer Hulusî Efendi upon whom all the Ushshaki branches are based on, the divans of the Ushshaki sheikhs Câhidî Ahmed Efendi, Muhyiddȋn-i Bursevî, İsmâil Hikmetȋ, Semiz-zâde Süleyman Rüşdȋ, Ahmed Tâlib-i İrşâdî, Abdurrahman Sâmî-i Ushshaki, Hüsn-i Gülzârȋ, Osmanzâde Hüseyin Vassâf, along with the divanches of Memȋcân-ı Saruhânî and Ömer Karîbȋ, the poems of Bekir Sıdkı Visâlȋ, Hazmi Tura, Mehmet Nusret Tura, İbrahim İpek Efendi, Ganiyy-i Muhtefî, Sıddık Naci Eren and Necdet Ardıç were analyzed within the framework of religious-mystical revelations. In this study, it was investigated how religious-mystical revolutions and concepts were expressed in the divans of the Ushshaki sheikhs within the framework of Ushshaki tradition. Concepts determined from this point of view were explained together with examples of poems based on various source works and other verse and prose works of the poetry of Ushshaki sheikhs.