Abstract
Sultan Osman II (Fârisî) and His Dîvânce
Sultan Osman II who also named as Genc Osman is the
sixteenth sultan of Ottoman Empire. His father is Ahmed
I, his mother is Mahfiruz Sultan. He was born on 3
November 1604, he ascended to throne at 14 years old and
he was dethroned by a military coup and killed at 18 years
old. He is the first sultan of Ottoman Empire who was
killed by a military coup.
This work's purpose is to determine Osman II's poems
with identified manuscripts, who wrote poems with Farisi
pen name. For this purpose, firstly, a brief summary about
Osman II’s life was presented; then, the works on his poesy
and poems were reviewed. Afterwards, the strongest text
was determined by doing critical text study on three
identified manuscripts. After that, Osman II’s poesy, his
poem’s form and characteristics of content were determined
from these poems.
Farisi, who died in his early years, wrote many works
which are 30 lyric, 1 müseddes, 67 verse, 2 kıt’a, 1 ruba’i
and 18 müfred, in total 119 poems. His poetic style is quite
simple. There are scarcely any dual terkip or triple terkip
in his poems.
Keywords
Osman II, Genc Osman, Farisi, Divance.