Abstract
Tokatlı Ishâk Efendi and his Mathnawis named Nazmu’l-Le'ali
In this study, we will give information about Nazmu’l-
Le‘âli by Tokatlı İshâk Efendi. Versification masnavi was
commonly used in Turkish literature in the seventeenth
century, almost every poet wrote works as in this verse.
Now this century, Addition to the usual masnavi issues,
indigenous issues began to be processed. Indeed, in this
century, such as held at, hilyes, forty hadith translations,
many masnavi written on religious subjects. In the wake
of our researches, we found out that these catechisms in
verse constitute a notable part of our religious literature.
This fact incited us to study how this tradition emerged.
Hereby study is about one of source texts and its translations
in verse, which is highly influential for emergence of
the tradition. We introduce two poetic translations of the
work, in order to better reflect its referential value. Evidently,
the texts, which influenced the emergence of mentioned
tradition, are not limited with this prose work, but
we consider it important in regard to influential extent of
the book. Besides, we believe that newly discovered catechisms
in verse, as well as other religious literary genres,
will help for better comprehension regarding the content
and limits of our literature.In our view, it will be useful
to introduce two prose works below, which we consider as
the basis of poetic catechisms, as translations in verse,
since the two following works are among the pieces to
constitute an origin for beginning of a tradition. We are
working on a religious masnavi named Nazmu'l-Le'ali's
written in this century. Akaid issues in Masnavi were
separately explained.
Keywords
Masnavi, Tokatlı İshak Efendi, Nazmu’l-Le'âlî, akâid.