Pir Sultan Abdal is one of the seven greatest poets of Alevi-Bektashi literature; among these poets, he is the one about whom the most number of researches have been carried out. Pir Sultan Abdal is the most lyrical poet of Alevi-Bektashi literature. He was born at the beginning of 16th century in Sivas city, Yıldızeli district, Banaz village; his real name was Haydar and his life has gained a legendary feature in time. Especially in Anatolia, there has been a Pir Sultan Abdal tradition and it is determined that more than 10 poets used Pir Sultan Abdal’s pen name. In this study, Pir Sultan Abdal’s poems in a specific journal will be analyzed. In this journal, written with rika in the shape of manuscript, there are many other poems belonging to Şah Hatayi and Kul Himmet. Poems of Kul Himmet in the journal were formerly published by us. Some of the pages in the journal are missing. There are 69 poems of Pir Sultan Abdal in the journal. As this number is too many for our article, only the first 23 poems will be analyzed. According to our research, 17 of these poems were formerly published in previous studies. 6 of them haven’t been published until today. Poems included in this study are chosen according to some criteria; they are different from the previously published ones in terms of shape and quadrant numbers and they have some different strain and phonetics aspects. These specifically chosen poems can be used as resources in comparative studies. So, 23 poems are included in this study. There are five quadrants in 20 poems, there are four quadrants in 1 poem, there are six quadrants in 1 poem and there are twelve quadrants in 1 poem. It is determined that eleven syllabic meters are used in 20 of the chosen poems while eight syllabic meters is used in 3 poems. It is attempted to correct some of the defects in syllabic meters by restoring the texts.
Folk Poetry, Alevi-Bektashi literature, Periodical (Journal), Pir Sultan Abdal
| Author : | Hasan KAYA -- Necat ÇETİN |
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| Number of pages: | 357-382 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.10114 |
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