MÜREFTE DUYUN-I UMUMİYE BAŞ KATİBİ ŞEYH İSMAİL HAKKI ZÜHDÎ EFENDİ DÎVÂNI’NIN TANITIMI

SHEIKH SMAL HAKKI ZÜHDÎ EFENDI BENG A CHIEF CLERK AT THE DUYÛN-I UMUMIYE IN MÜREFTE AND HIS DÎVÂN

Şeyh smail Hakkı Zühdî Efendi (1862/63-1912-13) was an officer in the Ottoman bureaucracy who had witnessed the period of the decadence of Ottoman Empire. He worked as a chief clerk at the Duyûn-ı Umumiye in Tekırdag, Mürefte. As also being a sheikh in the HalvetiJerrahi Order, he was a Sufi poet prefered the traditional literary form against the modernization in his period. In this article, we aimed to study about his Dîvân that is written as a single copy to be a souvenir for his lovers and dervishes. Beside this, his opinions, literarcy and the forms, themes of his poems are also analysed.