Abstract:
The subject of this thesis is Mevlid-i Şerîf, by Mustafa Selâmî, who lived in the 16th century. Mevlid-i Şerîf, which there are discussions about the writer of, has only one manuscript and it has been attributed to one of the 19th-century poets İzmirli Mustafa Selâmî by some researchers; but in this research, it is given some hard evidences which show that the work more likely belongs to İznikli Şeyh Mustafa Selâmî. Although there is not much data about Mustafa Selâmî, all the available information about his life and works has been compiled, and an investigation of his works that had not been found yet has also been included in this thesis. Furthermore; the origin of the genre, its development, and the works from this mevlid genre written in Anatolia have been examined by scanning mevlid literature. Also, the relations of Mustafa Selâmî’s Mevlid-i Şerîf with Vesîletü’n-Necât and Muhammediye has been investigated by giving examples from those works comparatively. Then the only manuscript has been transcripted, intralingual translation1 has been made and its form and content have been reviewed. The thesis has consisted of “Mustafa Selâmî’s Life and Works,” “The Analysis of Mevlid-i Şerîf,” “The relations of Mevlid-i Şerîf with Vesîletü’n-Necât and Muhammediye,” “Conclusion,” and “Transcripted and Intralingual Translation of Mevlid-i Şerîf” chapters and the facsimile has also been given in Appendix B.
