Kaygusuz Abdal

Tasavvuf Şairi

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Alaeddin Gaybî (asıl adı), Sarayî

Theologian, poet. His real name was Alaeddin Gaybi. Information on his life mostly comes from epics. It is understood that he lived in the 15th century and it is said that he took the name of Kaygusuz when he joined the convent of the dervishes of Bektashi Sheikh Abdal Musa in Elmalı. According to the stories, on the wishes of the dervish sheikh, he went to Egypt and founded a chapel and taught. From there he went on pilgrimage to Mecca and visited holy places. He visited Syria and Iraq and from Nusaybin he returned to Elmalı to his sheikh. It is possible that at some stage he returned to Egypt where he died.

He is known to have lived at the time of Murad II (1421-1451) and to have followed the style of Yunus Emre with his syllabic and prosodic poems whose sources were from theosophy and religion. He used syllabic and prosodic meters in his poems very successfully and they are of such simplicity that they can easily be understood even today. Kaygusuz Abdal as one of the leaders of folk poetry used the pen name of Sarayi when writing some of his poems. He wrote some Budalaname (Book of Domheid, prose–like works) which contain some witty remarks that occupy a place in examples of folk prose.

WORKS:

VERSE: Divân (Divan*, mostlyzse  composed of odes and 20-30 syllabic metered poems), Gülistan (Rose Garden, a theological work), Mesnevi-i Baba Kaygusuz (Mesnevi* of Baba Kaygusuz,  3 theolocical poems), Gevhernâme (Book of Jewellery, a poem written on the prophets and which has 63 couplets), Mimbernâme (The Pulpit Book, a theological poem of 29 couplets). gazel

FREE VERSE: Budalanâme (Book of Domheid) Kitab-ı Mığlete (Book of Word Arrows), Vûcudname (Book of Existence), Dilgûşa Saraynâme (Stories of Palace which Gives Airiness). They are all theology works). They are written by taking the Holy Koran and the studies of Prophet Muhammed  as resources, his last two works are written as half prose and half verse.

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