While Fevri was a devshirmeh of Croatian origin, he was one of the important Ottoman poets who received a great education as a Muslim and gained eligible reputation with his scholarly virtues and ability in being a poet in 16th century. The scholarly literary works that he wrote them became a great role for him to gain the reputation. Pilgrimage Travelbooks that he told the travel that he started out on the occassion of his duty of pilgrimage in 1546 and told a part of what he had and saw during the performance of the worship and he wrote in a mixed poetic-prose form is available among these works. His Pilgrimage Travelbooks which has been overshadowed of other works and has not been focused too much has a especial importance in terms that the poet reflected a different literary dialect and it has a different type among his works. Moreover, this work has an importance because it is in the type of pilgrimage itinerary that their samples are limited in the classic Turkish literature. In this research, a set of evaluations was made on the form and content features of Pilgrimage Travelbooks belonging to Fevri from the point of its available single copy and the work’s text in translated and written form was included.
Keywords: Classical Turkish literature, 16th century, Fevrî, pilgrimage, travelbook
http://dx.doi.org/10.17822/omad.2020.171
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