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Abstract enBaki, one of the most important poets of the classical Turkish poetry, has couple of prose works besides his magnificent odes (kaside) and lyrical poems (gazel) in an Epicurean spirit. Baki’s language in his prose pieces is simpler than in his poems. Baki’s outputs apart from his divan are focused on religious subjects and these works can be considered as translation studies. The most important and also the biggest volumed one of the mentioned studies is Me'alimu'l-Yakin. However it is seen as an Arabic translation, it is thought be one of the fundamental reference books of the Prophet Muhammed’s life in our resources of Prophet’s biography (siyer). Today there are lots of copies of this work either manuscripts or printed formats in Turkey and abroad libraries.

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