Aziz Mahmud Hudaji – turski pjesnik i mutesavvif
Aziz Mahmud Hudayi – Turkish Poet and Mutasawwif

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents basic information about the life and works of Sheikh Aziz Mahmud Hudaji and examples of poetry from his Divan. Aziz Mahmud Hudaji was a student of Sheikh Uftade, to whom the Djelveti Dervish order is associated. Although Sheikh Muhjiddin Uftade is considered the founder of the Djelveti tariqa, the order was institutionalized during the period of activity of Sheikh Mahmud Hudaji, one of his spiritual successors, and later the order became known as the order of Hudaji. Sheikh Hudaji was a prolific writer, the author of twenty-six works, nineteen in Arabic and seven in Turkish. He wrote didactic, Sufi poetry in a clear, vernacular Turkish language in a lyrical style, thus joining the constellation of Tasawwuf poets of folk literature. He wrote poetry in syllabic and quantitative meter. Sometimes he abandoned rhyme and meter for the sake of sense and meaning he wanted to convey.

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