Open AccessTransformatin Process of Human in Sheikh Galib's Poems
Author(s) -
Fettah Kuzu
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
turkish studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1308-2140
DOI - 10.7827/turkishstudies.3240
Subject(s) - poetry , process (computing) , literature , art , computer science , operating system
One of the bases of classical Turkish poetry has been Sufism which would be defined also as Islamic mysticism. In this sense Sufism and “Wahdat al-Wujud” (oneness of being; nonduality) belief have a determinative role when handling human and its adventure in universe of existence. In the poems of Sheikh Galib who has been accepted as the last and also the peak point of classical poetry, transformationprocess of human’s ego (self) has been discussed by the perfectcoherency between the artistic identity of poet within the frame ofopportunities provided by poetry and the mystic personality generatedfrom his being a sheikh.Sheikh Galib has expressed this transformation process in thesense of human concept, of which basic principles had been put forth in“oneness of being” thought by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, through developingoriginal metaphors and using obscure statements under the sway of“Sebk-i Hindi”(Indian Style) by his distinctive genre. By this aspect inhis poems Sheikh Galib as the last spokesman of classical Turkishpoetry has illuminated his readers by arranging the human perceptionof sufi environment where he had grown up and mysticism basedtraditional poetry, spiritual development process of this human andmaturation state gained after all, in an artistic form.In this study, Galib’s sample verses and couplets in whichreflections of human and its maturation experience have taken over,are to be tried to get analysed depending upon oneness of beingdoctrine and in this manner it is also going to be strived to getcomprehended human and its spiritual transformation process.