Abstract:

Remzî is one of our poets, who has lived in Kalkandelen city -which is in the boundaries of todayˈs Macedonia- in 19th century. There is no source of information on his life, however, approximately 100 leafs of his poets are present in a cönk type lettering at Macedonian national library. This article aims to introduce life, literary identity and his divan with reference to the lettering mentioned above. His life, the age and place he has lived in, the people he has been in contact, his sect and some other introductive information about Remzî has been constructed with the help of informations taken from his poems. In Rumeli, where Bektashism cult is widespread, Harabatî Baba Tekke, thereby, Kalkandelen is one of the important centers of Bektashism. Recep Pasha, who was a name to conjure with at the bureaucracy of Kalkandelen and its surroundings, and his sons has made great contributions to both Bektashi cult and the public improvements of the region. Remzi is a poet who has lived in that neighborhood and has had intisap to Bektashism.  At the poems of Remzî -who has sufficient amount of poets to create a rearranged (muretteb)divan- the usage of Turkish, the application of prosody, rime and repeated voices, content and dates of his poems, his düvazdehˈs, the praises he has written to cult leaders for various reasons, primary sources of information about his age & place and specialities like his comprehension of poetry has constructed the main frames of this article.

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