Hikmet - Akademik Edebiyat Dergisi

Abstract

Although it is accepted that there is a "Karac'oğlan tradition" in the research on Karac'oğlan today, unfortunately it is seen that this tradition does not take Karac'oğlan, who is accepted to have lived in the 16th century and who was also a Yeniçeri and Bektashi, as a reference point. Therefore, many researchers, especially M. Fuad Köprülü, attempt to build a tradition based on the name "Karac'oğlan from Çukurova", which is also considered to have lived in the 17th century. However, as far as it can be understood from his poems, it can be seen that the first founder of this tradition, which is directly connected to the field of truth within the circle of Töreli Turkish Literature, is Karac'oğlan, who is accepted to have lived in the 16th century. As a matter of fact, a new saying belonging to Karac'oğlan that we found today in a cönk in the Konya Manuscripts Directorate clearly shows this to us. Saying, It is said about Hz. Muhammad's eyebrows and in fact, it enlivens the dominant lover image in Karac'oğlan through the Miraç incident. Karac'oğlan, of course, has processed this idea quite successfully in his words within a unique aesthetic structure (style) that he established under the influence of the concept of beauty and beauty of divan poetry. The saying is, depending on the Miraç incident, while it reveals the love of the Hz. Muhammad's, it also points us to a Yeniçeri Karac'oğlan. Therefore, all these issues regarding Karac'oğlan are brought to the attention of the reader for the first time through this newly discovered saying of his.