Religious-Sufistic Concepts in Enderunlu Fazil's Poems of Ramadaniyya

In classical Turkish literature, poems mentioning the month of Ramadan were first published in XVII. and XVIII. century is a widespread species. These poems, called “ramadaniyya”, which the poets of the Divan presented to the sultans, elders or patrons on the occasion of the month of Ramadan and wrote about the Ramadan in the section of “nesip” and generally written in ode, are extremely important sources in determining the Ottoman society’s view of the month of Ramadan. Poems that mention the month of Ramadan can also be written in different verse forms, especially odes. The poet who wrote the most poems in this genre is Enderunlu Fazil. In Enderunlu Fazil’s Divan, there are twenty-three ramadaniyya type poems, twenty-one odes and two composition-bent. In this study, religious-mystical elements in the "ramadaniyya" type of poems in the Enderunlu Fazıl Divan’s were examined. For this, the manuscript with the fixture number NEKTY02819 in the Library of Rare Works of Istanbul University was taken as a basis; page, poem and couplet numbers are given in the order in this work. In some cases, Ms.or.fol.3343 in the Turkish Manuscripts Collection of the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) and the printed copy with the fixture number O / 253 in the Atatürk Library of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The verse forms, number of couplets, titles and meters of the Ramadaniyya are given in a table.

Cite this article: Düzenli, M. B., & Çukurlu, T. (2022). Religious-Sufistic Concepts in Enderunlu Fazil's Poems of Ramadaniyya. Journal of Literature and Humanities, 68, 1-8.