Burhaneddin Belhi ve Türkçe Mektupları

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Selçuk Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, sa.15, ss.203-224, 2006 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

Burhan al-Din Balkhi is a poet who wrote his own poems both in Turkish and Persian in some classical forms like gazel, mathnawi and rubai. He comes from a great respected family that emigrated from Balkh, Afghanistan to Istanbul. He is the son of Sheikh Sulayman Balkhi, author of Yanabi al-Mawadda and brother of Abd al Qaadir Balkhi (1839-1923) who is a famous mystical poet and sheikh of Malamiyya Hamzawiyya tariga between 1877 and 1923. Burhan al-Din Balkhi was born in Kunduz, Balkh in 1849. When he was about thirteen years old, his family moved from Balkh in the year 1853, because of British invasion of Afghanistan and adverse circumstances in the country. When the Balkhi family reached to Baghdat with a crowded convoy, Sultan Abd al-Aziz invited them to Istanbul. Sulayman Balkhi and his family arrived at Istanbul in 1861. Sulayman Balkhi and his two sons, Abd al Qaadir and Burhan al-Din Balkhi spent the rest of their's life in Istanbul. Burhan al Din Balkhi lived in this city until his death in 1930. He wrote both Turkish and Persian Divan and some literacy letters that show his connections to some important personalities ilke Jamal al-Din Afghani and Sheikh ar-Rais, the prlnce of Gajar. His Persian letters include formal features. These Turkish letters below demonstrate his literary taste.