Abstract
Proverbs, Idioms and Folk Sayings in the Divan of Sheikh al-islam Kemal Pashazade (Ibni Kemal)
Classical Turkish literature poets, who used many facts
belonging to the society they were in, as the subjects of their
poems, also made extensive use of proverbs and idioms, and
they even succeed in using proverbs and idioms in poetry
to make it a part of the divan poetry tradition. Sheikh alislam
Kemal Pashazade is one of the poets who included
proverbs and idioms that almost every poet has used more
or less in line with their tastes and styles.
Kemal Pashazade, who was referred to as the mufti of all
people, the mufti of people and jinn, Ibn-i Sina of Anatolia
and Rumelia and held the position of Sheikh al-islam for
eight years, is one of the most important scholars educated
by the Ottoman state. One of the most important works of
Kemal Pashazade in the field of classical Turkish literature
which he has written over two hundred works in Turkish,
Arabic, and Persian in many fields such as tafsir, hadith,
fiqh, Sufism, philosophy, history, language, and medicine
is his Divan.
All the poems of Kemal Pashazade, which are written in
a simple style by him, and which he prioritizes love and
stories in his poems are quite remarkable in terms of the use
of proverbs, idioms and folk expressions. Kemal Pashazade
used around 30 proverbs and 300 idioms in his poems. In
this study, his determined proverbs, idioms, and folk
expressions, and how often they are used have been
presented.
Keywords
Sheikh al-islam Kemal Pashazade, Divan, Proverbs, Idioms, Folk Sayings.