An Essay Of Comparing Mevlevî Literature Resourches Esrâr Dede’s Tezkire-i Şu’arâ-yı Mevleviyye With Alî Enver’s Semâ’-Hâne-i Edeb

It is possible that there are class literatures which were created of some poets and writers in classical Turkish literature. It can be said that there is Mevlevî literature which is reinforced by the tradition of classical Turkish literature and Mevlevî tarika. Mevlevî literature made its own tradition of biography. The biography book, called Tezkire-i Şu’arâ-yı Mevleviyye which was written at the end of 18 century by Esrâr Dede, has a big importance because of collecting the Mevlevi poets. Semâ’-hâne-i Edeb, which was written at the end of the 19 century is a similar biography book with Tezkire-i Şu’arâ-yı Mevleviyye. This book collects 190 Mevlevî poets biography. In this biography book Alî Enver writes his own opinions which are different of Esrâr Dede. If we compare these biography books we see that Semâ’-hâne-i Edeb is not a summary of Tezkire-i Şu’arâ-yı Mevleviyye. In this article we tried to show that Semâ’-hâne-i Edeb is an independent biography book.