Religious-Sufistic Poetry in Turkish Folk Literature
Course Code
Semester
Course Name
LE/RC/LA
Course Type
Language of Instruction
ECTS
TDED0033
Religious-Sufistic Poetry in Turkish Folk Literature
3/0/0
DE
Turkish
9
Course Goals
To analyze poets-minstrels who grew up in the dervish lodge, a kind of formal education institutions, and who sing pleasantly their poems with the religious-sufistic content in accordance with the spirit of people and their pleasure; to deal with their works, the historical, social, and religious environment that these works appeared.
Prerequisite(s)
Corequisite(s)
Special Requisite(s)
Instructor(s)
Professor Muharrem Kaya
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
Principle Sources
-KÖPRÜLÜ, M.Fuat (1984) Türk edebiyatında İlk Mutasavvıflar, Ankara.
ARAT, Reşit Rahmeti (1991), Eski Türk Şiiri, Ankara.
GÖLPINARLI, Abdulbaki (1963), Alevi-Bektaşi Nefesleri, İstanbul.
GÖLPINARLI, Abdulbaki (1985), 100 Soruda Tasavvuf, İstanbul.
GÜZEL; Abdurrahman (1989), "Tekke Şiiri", Türk dili-Türk Şiiri Özel Sayısı (Halk Şiiri)
OCAK, Ahmet Yaşar (2002) Türk sufiliğine bakışlar, İstanbul.
Other Sources
-BARKAN, Ömer Lütfi, "Kolonizatör Türk Dervişleri", Vakıflar Dergisi, II,1942.
ASLANOĞLU, İbrahim (1984) Pir Sultan Abdallar, İstanbul.
GÜZEL; Abdurrahman (2000), Dini-Tasavvufi Türk edebiyatı, Ankara.
TATÇI, Mustafa (1990) Yunus Emre Divanı I-II-III.
YAVUZER, Hayati (2008), Kemal Ümmi Divanı, Bolu.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Religious poem in Turks before Islamic period
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
2. Week
Sufistic movement and Middle Asia
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
3. Week
Dervish lodge and Madrasa-centered cultural formation
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
4. Week
The route of religious-sufistic poetry from Ahmet Yesevi to Yunus Emre
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
5. Week
The religious-sufistic ground in Anatolia in XIII-XVI. Century I
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
6. Week
The religious-sufistic ground in Anatolia in XIII-XVI. Century II
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
7. Week
Poetry, music and ritual around dervish lodge
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
8. Week
Sufistic poetry around dervish lodge I: Yunus Emre
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
9. Week
Sufistic poetry around dervish lodge II: Kemal Ümmi
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
10. Week
Midterm
11. Week
Sufistic poetry around dervish lodge III: Pir Sultan Abdal
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
12. Week
Sufistic poetry around dervish lodge IV: Kul Himmet
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
13. Week
Sufistic poetry around dervish lodge V: Sümmani
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
14. Week
Sufistic poetry around dervish lodge VI: Aşık Veysel
Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
15. Week
Final
16. Week
Final
17. Week
Final
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
20
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
20
Final Exam
1
60
Program Outcomes
PO-1
The doctoral students collect the theoretical, practical information, and texts according to the department’s special method; they interpret them and attain a synthesis by making the interdisciplinary analyses.
PO-2
The students are able to grasp the historical and cultural basis of the Turkish world literature in classical period; they recognize the features of the texts’ language of this period and evaluate in terms of literary. In addition, the students recognize the scientific and sufistic works created in the collective cultural geography.
PO-3
The students are able to assess the texts of the Turkish Language and Literature from the beginning until today in terms of literary and philology.
PO-4
The students are able to follow the historical alphabets of the Turkish language through the original texts; they are able to make textual analysis by comparing with the texts of western and eastern literature.
PO-5
The students are able to identify the schools and styles situated in classical Turkish poet. They are able to read and comment on the various texts of these schools and styles.
PO-6
The students are equipped with the basic knowledge and ability to do scientific research and study in the Turkish Language and Literature at postgraduate level
PO-7
The students are able to recognize the texts of the historical and modern Turkish dialects; they are able to examine these texts in terms of lexicography, etymology, semantics, phonetics, and morphology; they are able to compare these dialects with each other.
PO-8
The students are able to attain the written and verbal sources based upon the scientific research methods and conduct a field study.
PO-9
The students are able to confirm and classify the elements of folk culture and folkloric materials in the individual and anonymous works created as part of verbal culture.
PO-10
The students find a chance to research and examine extensively the language, literature, art, and culture of the Turkish Language and Literature from the history to the present day.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
The students investigate the mentioned characteristics of poems, which were formed in the dervish lodge, stayed out of classical literature in terms of the limits of the content, language, tone, and world view, and existed generally within the music.
LO-2
The students are able to grasp the elements of the religious-sufistic poetry bringing from the religious poetry in Middle Asia before Islam with the comparison.
LO-3
The students are able to recognize the premises of religious-sufistic poetry, which lead to estimate the religious-sufistic poetry among the saz poetry(Saz Şiiri) and ottoman poetry (Divan) in the next periods.
LO-4
The students are able to the role of religious-sufistic tendencies during the passage from minstrel to Ashik
LO-5
The students are able to discuss the minstrel/Ashik/poets who sing pleasantly their poems with the religious-sufistic content in accordance with the spirit of people and their pleasure during the historical process from XIII. century to XX. Century through a historical perspective.
