Abstract:

Suyolcu-zâde Nehrî Ahmed, one of the sufi poets of 18th century is from the city of Tekirdağ. He is the son of Suyolcu-zâde Sheikh Mehemmed (d. 1155/1742-43) who is the mentor of Kâdiriyye Dergâh in Tekirdağ. Nehrî Ahmed who has two brothers named Mustafa and Mahmud becomes a “post-nişin”, the spiritual head of the sect, after the death of his father. Nehrî provided significant services while he was in this Dergâh and died after he turned back from the duty of Hajj (d. 1182/1768-1769). After the death, his son Mehemmed Muslihuddin takes the responsibility of the mission of mentoring in Kâdiriyye Dergâh in Tekirdağ. The masnawi namely Tuhfe-i Rûmî by Seyyid Sırrı Ali carries high importance for our paper in terms of giving detailed information about sheiks of Kâdiriyye Dergâh in Tekirdağ. Mehmed Tâhir from Bursa states that Nehrî has two works. First is about the belief of the unity of existence. This work is not found for now. The second is Dîvânçe which is the subject of this paper. Only one copy that we could determine of this work is registered at Vatikan Library, Turkish Manuscripts, No: 235. There are both Turkish, Arabic and Persian poems in Dîvânçe, of which we could reach to a digital copy. Suyolcu-zâde Ahmed used the pen name of Nehrî in these poems. In this paper, 45 Turkish poems from Dîvânçe are transcripted. Meanings and sources of ayats, hadiths and Arabic terms in the poems are given as footnotes. The names of Abdülkâdir-i Geylânî, the main founder of the sect and İsmail Rûmî, the founder of the branch od Rûmîyye besides Niyâzî-i Mısrî are also take attention in Nehrî’s poems. Besides nazire and tahmis to Mısrî, this sufi poet writes praise for Mısrî in his one entire poem.

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