Poet and writer (b. 26 June 1968, Çubuk village / Yıldızeli / Sivas). He attended
primary school in his village and high school in Sivas. He graduated from Marmara University,
Faculty of Divinity (1992). He completed his postgraduate education on
Turk-Islam Literature at the same faculty. His masters thesis was on “Edebiyât-ı
Umûmiyye Mecmuası İndeksi ve Dönemin Edebî Hayatındaki Yeri” (Index of The Review Edebiyât-ı Umûmiye and
Its Place in Literary Life of the Period). He worked as a teacher in İstanbul,
Aydın and İzmir for a time. He became a researcher at Cumhuriyet University,
Faculty of Divinity, Department of Turk-Islam Literature in 1998. After having
completed his PhD “Fenâyî Divânı”
(Collected Works of Fenayi) at Dokuz Eylül University,
he returned to Sivas
again (2002). He is still an academician of Turk-Islam Literature at Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Divinity,
Department of Islam History and Art. He was one of the founders of Eğitim-Bir
Syndicate and was branch chairman of syndicate for a time. He is a member of Writers Union
of Turkey.
His first poem (Dert ve Çare,
The Trouble and the Solution) was published in the newspaper Millî Gazete (9.1.1989). He published
his poetry and articles in the reviews such as İslâm Güneşi, Vahdet, Nida,
Kardelen, Yeni Dünya, Bizim Ocak, Altınoluk, Kadın ve Aile, İnsanlığa Çağrı,
Yedi İklim, Ay Vakti, İslâmî Edebiyat, İstanbul Millî Eğitim, Yeni İfade, DEÜ
İlahiyat Fak. Dergisi, CÜ, İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, Tasavvuf, Yedi İklim (Sivas)
and Muştu that he published as well
as various reviews and newspapers. He contributed to the preparation of the
culture-art pages of the reviews Nida and Yeni Dünya. Some of his poetry was composed. He came
first at Poet and Writer M. Akif İnan Poetry Awards that was held by Şanlıurfa Municipality and the Writers Union of Turkey.
WORKS:
POETRY: Af Dilekçesi (Forgiveness Petition, 1992), Sevda
Nöbetleri (Love Shifts, 2000).
STUDY: İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergileri Makale ve Yazarlar Fihristi
1952-2002 (Articles and Writers Index of the Faculty of Divinity Reviews,
with Tahsin Koçyiğit, 2002), Türk-İslâm Edebiyatı (Turk-Islam
Literature, with H. İbrahim Şener, 2003), Şeyh
Hâlid Divanı (Divan* of Şeyh Hâlid, 2004).
ANTHOLOGY: Sivaslı Şairler Antolojisi (Anthology of Poets of Sivas, 2003).
REFERENCE: Ali Aksaray / Kendini Arayan Bir
Gazelhan (Kadın ve Aile, 1992), Bilal Sert / Şair Alim Yıldız’la Kitabı “Af Dilekçesi”
Çerçevesinde Bir Konuşma (Bizim Sivas, 14.8.1992), İsmail Kılıçarslan /
Fakülteli Yeteneklerimiz Şâir Alim Yıldız (İlâhiyat Bülteni, Ocak 1994), İsmail
Kıllıoğlu / İlk Adımlar (Kadın ve Aile, Haziran 1997), Ahmet Özdemir / Kitap
Rafından “Sevda Nöbetleri” (Bizim Gazete, 15.8.2001), Çetin Alper, Sevda
Nöbetleri (İslâmi Edebiyat, Temmuz-Ağustos-Eylül 2001), Alim Yıldız / Sivaslı Şairler
Antolojisi (2003), Abdurrahman Şen / Sivaslı Şairler Antolojisi (Yeni Asya,
5.9.2003), Kemal Ocak / Türksoy 4. Şairler Buluşması Bu Kez Sivas’ta Yapıldı
(Türksoy-Türk Dünyası Kültür, Sanat, Bilim, Haber ve Araştırma Dergisi, Eylül
2003), Selahattin Çerik / Sivas’ta Herkes Şair (Bizim Sivas, 23.12.2003), Bilal
Kemikli / Sivaslı Şairler Antolojisi (Sühan, Ocak 2004), Osman Akkuşak /
Perşembe Notları (Yeni Şafak, 8.7.2004), A. Turan Alkan / Şehir Edebiyatına
Dair: Sivaslı Şairler Antolojisi (Aksiyon, Ağustos 2004), Ahmet Gökbel / İnanç
Tarihi Açısından Sivas (2004, s. 196), İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye
Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2. bas., 2009).