Nesimi, Seyid İmadeddin

Nesimi, Seyid İmadeddin

▪ Turkish poet
died c. 1418, , Aleppo, Syria

      one of the greatest Turkish mystical poets of the late 14th and early 15th centuries.

      Very little about his early life is known. He became acquainted with the founder of an extremist religious sect, the Ḥurūfīs, the Iranian mystic Faḍl Allāh of Astarābād, who was flayed to death for his heretical beliefs in 1401/02. Ḥurūfism was based on a kabbalistic philosophy associated with the numerological significance attributed to the letters of the alphabet and their combinations (hence the name, ḥurūf, Arabic “letters”). Nesimi seems to have studied with various mystical teachers before he met Faḍl Allāh, but after their meeting he became a zealous adherent of the sect, acting as missionary. Regarded as a heretic by the ulama—i.e., those learned in the Muslim sciences—of Aleppo, he was accused of heresy and suffered the same fate as his master in about 1418.

      Nesimi wrote two divans (collections of poetry), one in Persian and one in Turkish, and a number of poems in Arabic. The Turkish Dīvān, which is considered his most important work, contains 250–300 ghazals (“lyrics”) and more than 150 rubaʿis (“quatrains”). He expresses in his poetry both Ṣūfī and Ḥurūfī sentiments. Abounding in allusions to the martyred Faḍl Allāh, the poet's ecstatic verse repeats the basic Ḥurūfī conception that man is the incarnation of God. His lyrical and elegant style makes him one of the most prominent early divan masters, assuring him an important place in Turkish literary history.

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