Abstract
A REFLECTION OF THE AESTHETICS OF ISLAMIC ARTS IN CLASSICAL TURKISH POETRY: “EŞ’ÂR-I PERÎŞÂN”
Classical Turkish poetry has taken its aesthetic principles from Islamic art. The aesthetics of classical period poetry emerged with a certain form and integrity of meaning. The absence of subject integrity, which is a characteristic of this poem, should not be an element of criticism. This feature is an important feature of classical Turkish poetry, the origin of Islamic art aesthetics. The diffusion of poetry texts in terms of subject matter is a result of the reflection of the modular system in the aesthetics of Islamic art to poetry.
Classical Turkish poetry has a text form formed by couplets coming together. In this poem form the couplets alone represent significant small units. In this tradition of poetry, even if any couplet from the poem text is detached from the whole to which it belongs, it will not lose anything from its vitality. Similarly, the modular system, which is common in Islamic arts, is formed by bringing together smaller units that are meaningful. This form, which is common in the aesthetics of Islamic arts, has also emphasized the poets of the classical period with expressions such as “eş’âr-ı perîşân”, “perîşân güftâr”, “perîşân ebhâs” and “elfâz-ı perîşân”
Keywords
Classical Turkish poetry, modular system, Islamic art, aesthetics.