Abstract
THE IMAGINATION OF GOD IN ALI ŞİR NEVÂYİ'S DIVINE NAMED GARABÜ’S-SIGAR
The existence and nature of God has been one of the
subjects that mankind has been curious about since
ancient times. In the historical process, disciplines such
as philosophy, mysticism and kalam have put forward
different views on the existence and nature of God. Man is a creature created by God. It is possible for man to know
God, who is a transcendent being, only to the extent that
God introduces himself to people in the holy books
through revelation. Apart from this, man's conceptions of
God's nature; it will be limited to the culture, perception,
accumulation and imagination of the society in which he
lives. God vision; It can change according to time, society
and religions. Due to the fact that the nature and essence
of Allah cannot be perceived by the senses, Islamic
scholars have tried to know Allah through the names,
attributes and expressions in the Qur’an.
The artist reflects the religious beliefs, material and
spiritual cultural elements of the society in which he lives;
He is the person who aesthetically expresses the society's
way of perceiving the beings, life and the universe, briefly
the mentality of the era in which he lived.
Classical Turkish literature, which has a rich source of
different science and art branches, provides important
information about Turkish-Islamic civilization. There is a
need for interdisciplinary studies in order to reveal the
function of transferring culture of classical Turkish
literature texts. In this study, with an interdisciplinary
approach; Following a text-centered, culture-related
method, the subject of God's imagination is discussed in
Ali Şîr Nevâyî's divan named Garâibü's-Sıgar.
Keywords
God, Classical Turkish literature, Chagatay literature, Ali Şîr Nevâyî, Garâibü’s-Sıgar.
