Siyer Edebiyatı Bağlamında Hâce Muhammed Lutfî’nin Mevlid ve Mi’râciye’si
Mawlid and Mi’rāj Poems of Hāja Muhammad Lutfī in Sīrat Literature

Summary/Abstract: Over the years, the writing of sīrat, which dates back to the earliest times of Islamic history, has made an enormous and varied body of literature available. This literature developed through commentary-hashiyas, critique, and transmission, and even continued with the addition of thematic sub-genres. The works written in prose form, have influenced sīrat writing throughout history. During the Ottoman era, poetry gained prominence, with poetic sīrat texts being widely utilized. The sources and the method of text generation, which had a certain continuity until the modernization era, underwent a significant in this period. This rupture affected the sīrat texts of the Republic of Turkey period. A new age has been brought about by the criticism of the sīrat literature that is currently in existence using new preferences for the utilization of sources. Texts produced in a literary manner are found in this new era when many aspects of traditional sīrat writing have been abandoned. We are studying these texts authored by Alvarlı Hāja Muhammad Lutfī, who underwent classical education procedures and represented a tradition with a Sufi component. This study discusses two sections of Hāja Muhammad Lutfī’s Hulāsat al-ḥaqāyīq, which is regarded as one of the literary texts of sīrat writing: Mīrāj al-Nabī and Mawlid al-Nabī. The study begins with a brief history of the use of poetry as a writing form and source in sīrat writing, then, it emphasizes the forms of text construction, and finally, it discusses the main themes, sources, preferences, and mi’rājiya and mawlid sections of Hāja Muhammad Lutfī’s work in sīrat writing. In this way, it aimed to discuss the history of using poetry in sīrat literature, to open the poetic texts in the sīrat genre to the discussion, and for this purpose, the texts subject to the research were evaluated in terms of content, use of sources and style. As a result of the research, it has been seen that poetry, which has existed since the emergence of sīrat literature, has turned into a unique form of text construction in time and fed this literature, and that the mawlid and mi’rājiyya of Hāja Muhammad Lutfī are texts that continue the classical literature in the Republican period in terms of their sources and style.

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