Research Article

Osman Sems Efendi's Poems in Religious and Mystic Content

Volume: 18 Number: 1 June 15, 2014
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Osman Sems Efendi's Poems in Religious and Mystic Content

Abstract

Osman Sems Efendi is one of the important poets in XIX. century Turkish poetry. Besides being a poet, he was one of the important sufi (mystic) in that period. Osman Sems Efendi started his mystic path (seyr u suluk) through joining to the Naqshbandiyya and Khalwati order while he was youth, then fulfilled it in the Qadiriyya order and founded the branch of Enveriyye in this tariqa (sufi path).Osman Sems Efendi aimed to transfer his mystical thoughts through amounting to about 7000 couplets and according to him the other issues are of secondary importance. In this article, it will be mentioned to Osman Sems Efendi’s poems which he expresses his religious and mystical thoughts and some observations will be tried to put forward about his ideas through given some examples from his couplets.

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 15, 2014

Submission Date

January 4, 2014

Acceptance Date

May 4, 2014

Published in Issue

Year 2014 Volume: 18 Number: 1

ISNAD
Yıldırım, Yusuf. “Osman Sems Efendi’s Poems in Religious and Mystic Content”. Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 18/1 (June 1, 2014): 37-64. https://doi.org/10.18505/cuifd.254636.

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