16 Abdurrahman Şeref Güzelyazıcı'nın Yayınlanmamış Şiirleri Mart 2024 Turkish Studies Religion, 19( 1), 23 65

Turkish Studies Comparative Religious Studies eISSN: 2667-5544 www.turkishstudies.net/religion Research Article / Arastrma Makalesi Abdurrahman Şeref Güzelyazıcı'nın Yayınlanmamış Şiirleri Unpublished Poems of Abdurrahman Şeref Güzelyazıcı Necmi Atik” Abstract: Abdurrahman Şeref Güzelyazıcı, a prolific writer who wrote works in different fields and died while continuing his duty as Mufti of Istanbul, is one of the most important figures of classical Turkish literature and one of the distinguished personalities raised by the Turkish nation in the last period which was transferred from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic. Giizelyazici, who was raised in a family of experts in science and art in the last period of the Ottoman Empire, wrote hundreds of poems in aruz and syllable meter using the pseudonym "Şeref". One of his works in the field of poetry, Eylül Yaprakları, was published in 1938, and Gönül Yolcuları, in 1944, when he was alive, and after his death, his Divan, consisting of 582 poems, was studied and published by Emrah Gökçe. His works named Bahar Branches, Truth Flowers, Telden Tele, Mezar (Makber naziresi), which were determined to be among the poetry books, could not be reached. Güzelyazıcı became a special student of Muhammed Hamdi Yazır from Elmalı, whom he said "I am a drop from that sea" when he was studying at the Faculty of Theology affiliated to Daru'I-Fünün, and he declared that he benefited a lot from his teacher. As can be understood from the poems we identified in the researches we conducted on Elmalili's heritage, Güzelyazıcı visited his teacher frequently until his death. During these visits, he presented his own handwritten poems to his teacher, who was also a poet, at different times. According to our observations, among these poems, there are 44 ghazals and 11 nazire poems belonging to Güzelyazıcı in Elmalili's heritage. Some of the poems in the aforementioned heritage works are included in the published works of Güzelyazıcı. The subject of our study is about 34 poems with 26 ghazals and 8 nazire, which are in Elmalılı's heritage works and are not included in Güzelyazıcı's works and will be published for the first time. With this study, the unknown poems of Güzelyazıcı, who is considered one of the last representatives of aruz prosody, will be brought to our history of classical Turkish literature. Structured Abstract: Abdurrahman Şeref Güzelyazıcı, who was born in the town of Petrich in the Serez Sanjak of Thessaloniki Province in 1904 and passed away in Istanbul in 1978, is a scholar and writer who grew up in the last period of the Ottoman Empire and held important positions in the Republic of Turkey. He created works in different fields with his knowledge and dominance of Arabic, Persian and French. In addition to his duties in different libraries, he taught Turkish and religion in secondary and high schools affiliated to the National Education, and taught tafsir, usül-i fiqh, hadith and usül-i hadith at Imam Hatip High School. A very important feature of Güzelyazıcı, who is known for writing works with religious content, such as Religious Lessons, Immutable Texts of Ahl al-Sunnah, Sermons from the Fatih Minbar to Believers, during his mysticism, teaching religion lessons and his duties under the Presidency of Religious Affairs. He wrote hundreds of poems in aruz meter. The search for renewal of the Ottoman Empire, especially in the last period, reached its peak in the XIX. with the second half of the 20th century, it began to be seen and felt in all areas of life. These new * Dr., Bağımsız Araştırmacı Dr., Independent Researcher İD 0000-0001 -7370-8577 necmiatik © hotmail.com Cite as/ Atıf: Atik N. (2024). Abdurrahman Şeref Güzelyazıcı'nın yayınlanmamış şiirleri. Turkish Studies Religion, 19(1), 23-65. https://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.72230 Received/Geliş: 01 September/Eylül/2023 Checked by plagiarism software Accepted/Kabul: 20 March/Mart 2024 Published/Yayın: 25 March/Mart 2024 24 Necmi Atik searches have also transformed the long-established literary tradition and classical Turkish literature has started to leave the scene gradually. Classical Turkish literature, which weakened gradually in the early years of the republican period, left its place to modern trends after a while, and apart from a few poets, there were no poets who wrote poetry in aruz meter. Abdurrahman Şeref Güzelyazıcı is undoubtedly one of the few prosody poets composed of Tevfik Fikret (d.1915), Mehmet Akif Ersoy (d.1936), Abdülhak Hamid (d.1937), Yahya Kemal (d.1958), and even the last one. We have no information about when Güzelyazıcı started his studies in the field of literature. Considering his success in this field, it can be said that he was engaged in poetry at an early age. He dedicated his first poetry book to Tahir Olgun in 1938 and published it under the name Eylül Yaprakları at the Company Miirettibiye Printing House in Istanbul. In the first poetry book, which consists of 133 pages