Abstract:

One of the poetry types in Classical Turkish literature is the hadj accomodation books. The poet in the accomodation books informs about the destinations' water and food situation on the travel routes, their distance to the previous destination, the people's features to the prospective pilgrims. These works are very important because they include the direct information about the Ottoman geography’s physical and human features. These is a work in the type of accomodation book which was written by a poet in the pen name of Seyyid in the manuscript copy which is recorded in the German National Library with the number of ms.or.oct. in 1602. This work which was written in 1110 (1698/99) gives the impression that it was written by Seyyid Mehmet who was the sheikh in Enarlı's small Islamic monastery in Bursa and died eight years later from the date. The Poetic Hadj Accomodation Book which was written in the masnavi verse form consisted of 145 couplets. It was written with the prosody's three different long patterns. The information was included about thirty seven inns on Uskudar-Damascus stage and thirty six inns on Damascus-Fatima Valley during the hadj travel. The work is different from the samples of other accomodation books as it mentions clearly on the social-executive problems about the aberration of scholars and rulers in the period when it was written, the favouritism, the moral corruption, bribery, and it includes the religious-sufistic and moral messages besides the destination information.

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