THE POET MÂLÎ FROM DIYARBAKIR, HIS LIFE, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND THE DIVAN ABSTRACT

Classical Turkish Literature, although it is generally known as a growing literature around the palace, it has also been observed as a result of studies that there are several poets who have grown out of Istanbul in this area. The subject of this study is about ''Mâlî's Life, Literary Personality and the Divan'' ,who was one of those poets that grew up outside Istanbul. Limited information is available in resources about the poet Mâlî whose real name is Mehmed Çelebi. Mâlî, who was one of the17th-century poets, was born in Diyarbakir. The poet, whose date of birth is unknown, died in Diyarbakir, AH 1085 (1674). The poet has a Turkish Divan that has been managed to be detected up to now. There is only one known copy of Divan. The Divan is registered in the number 630 in Istanbul University Manuscripts Library. The Divan consists of 20 mesnevis , 9 odes, 109 ghazals, 1 composition of bend, 1 Muhammes, 15 Rubaies, 6 verses and 1 poem of history. In this study, we have tried to give information about his life with the information obtained from sources located in the poet's divan poetry. The most significant side of our study is its information by the collection of biographies (tezkires) in a pseudonym such as Me’ali instead of Mali. Upon the result of our study an his Divan, me came to the conclusion that the pseudonym of the poet is Mali. Furthermore, we have tried to demonstrate the content of the work and Mâlî's literary personality and the verse forms, content, features of language and style of the poem by basing on the factors relevant with the field of human, society and nature in poems.