Life and Literary Personality of Sayf-i Fargânî

Seyf-i Fergani (Death before 749/1348) who was born in Mave-raunnehir/West Turkestan spent most of his life around Aksaray in Anatolia. It is possible to see the social, historical and literary characteristics of Anatolia in the years he lived in his poems.As the one of the greatest poets of Persian poetry in Anatolia, Seyf-i Fergani, has a poetry (diwan). The poetry has a total of 10,277 bids. Fergani's poems are composed of ode, ghazel and few con-tinents and rubas. There are three extant copies of the Diwan, in particular the author's line.