Abstract
In Turkish literature, elifnames are a subject that is of interest and examples are given in almost every period of history. These poems, which are one of the ways to make the narrations much more attractive, are the use of letters as images in terms of both shape and meaning. Letter-based rhetoric such as Leb-değiz, muvaşşah, mühmel, mu’cem, haifa, rakta, making analogies according to the shapes of letters, and elements related to abjad calculation are just a few of the features related to letters. Seyyid Ali Rûmî, who does not have information about his life and personality in literary sources and especially in tezkires, gives detailed information about himself and his works in his voluminous work called Dürrü’l-Fu’ad and Şeyhu’l-İrşâd. In the two elif-nâmes found in this work, he tells in verse about Abdülkadir Geylani, to whom he is deepl attached to Sufism, and his works. In his second elif-nâme, he criticizes the moral and religious weaknesses of the people of his time and guides them. In his third poem, which is not actually an example of an elif-nâme, he writes the names of the works he wrote and introduces those treatises and books. In fact, the mentioned works of Ali Rûmî have not been identified until today.