@article{2017,title={Jests in Meşâirü’ş-Şuara of Âşık Çelebi},abstractNode={Jest is a pleasant and witted word or story or joke that is told for the purpose of making laugh and entertain. Jest having meaning of well, pleasant word, joke, humour that makes people laugh and cheer tells fine meanings that are harder to tell with words as well as weird words and stories that will make laugh. Jests are very important in aspect of shedding light to history and life of community, literary personalities with the language and wording characteristics of the period they are told. Magazines gathering and writing jests are referred as Letaif, Letaifname. These works have become common as from 16th century. Humour is a work of jokes. Making laugh without being laughed is an art requiring agile wit. People must not be vulgar while attempting to mock with someone. Humour insulting to honour of human is generally criticised however elegant, pleasant and fitted humour are considered as superior. There are special Letaifnames as well as jests are encountered in certain works. One of these works is the Collection of Biographies of Aşık Çelebi referred as Meşairü’ş-Şuara. Aşık Çelebi was born in 1520, Prizren. He worked as Kadı at various places. He died at the end of 1572 while he was acting as Skopje Kadı. Most significant work of Aşık Çelebi is the Collection of Biographies referred as Meşairü’ş-Şuara. Work was completed in 1568. Meşairü’ş-Şuara is comprised of preface and biographies of 426 poets. Aşık Çelebi has written his Collection of Biographies with his unique wording. Information he presented in short biographies is not so different than other collection of biographies. His wording shines while telling the poets he recognized. One of the most important characteristics of collection of biographies is giving most accurate and widest information about the poets he recognized and learnt from his surrounding and inspecting the poets and events as a psychologist. Therefore, collection of biographies has the mood of a story or novel. Aşık Çelebi also tells various events that can be qualified as jest while describing the poets in his collection of biographies. Aşık Çelebi has specified them as letaif. We will attempt to indicate the jests in the collection of biographies written by Aşık Çelebi in this article.},author={Fatih SONA},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}