A Historical Document: Unknown Diwan (Poetry) of Ali İlhami Dede Cover Image

Bir Tarihî Vesika: Ali İlhami Dede’nin Bilinmeyen Divanı
A Historical Document: Unknown Diwan (Poetry) of Ali İlhami Dede

Author(s): Atiye Nazlı
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Turkish Literature, 19th Century
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Ali İlhami Dede; divan; poem; ehli beyt; history;

Summary/Abstract: There is very few information in the sources about Ali İlhami Dede, the last postnishin (Mawlavi sheikh) who grew up in the Alevi Bektashi order. His poems are included in several books, while his poems collected by his grandson have been published as a diwan, including the place where his lodge is located and its historical development, especially the environment where he lived in the early 20th century. Apart from the information about the life of Ali İlhami Dede between the lines, the name range of the grandparents and fathers who managed the lodge since the 10th century is very important. In the work in which the place where Battal Gazi is buried in historical sources, his bond with Danişment Gazi, the ties of the Seljuk Khans and Ottoman Sultans with the lodge, the maintenance and repairs they have done are explained in detail, transferring the inscriptions found in the tombs to the court is also important in terms of extracting the Alevi Bektashi lineage. There are 49 poems of Ali İlhami Dede in the Divan. While these poems are seen as four, five and six lines, at the same time, they are written with both syllabic meter and aruz prosody, which is an indication that he knows all the features of Turkish poetry. The subjects of the poems are the love of Hazrat Allah, Hazrat Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh), Hazrat Ali, Hazrat Hasan and Hüseyin, the twelve imams, Karbala, Battal Gazi, Haci Bektashi Veli, and also the beauties of nature, the sect rules, love and the mortality of the world. Ali İlhami Dede used the pen names İlhami, İlhami Abdal, İlhami derviş, İlhami Fakir, Garip İlhami in his poems. In our study, the connection of the Alevi Bektashi sect with Battal Gazi, which is on the council of Ali İlhami Dede, and the subjects and introduction of his poems are included.

  • Issue Year: 27/2021
  • Issue No: 105
  • Page Range: 279-298
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish