ŞEYHÜLİSLÂM YAHYÂ DÎVÂNI'NDA AŞK ŞARABI

This study is made up of two parts. Firstly, we investigate a sufic type poem, "Sâkî-nârne" mesnevi, which stands at the beginning of the divan of Sheikh Al-lslam Yahya, and secondly the interpretation of the wine of love in his odes. In our opinion, Sâkî-nârne is a dictionary of key words or symbols for the wine poems in his odes. In other words, it is like a meaning expression of the words related to wine. In fact, the poet about his mesnevi at the beginning of the Divan seems to wish that the words concerned with wine in rindane odes should be perceived in line with the meaning in Sâkî-nârne. The perspective of the poet about universe overlaps with the one of sufies. According to him, all of the things created in the universe ranging from stars in the sky to flowers in the gardens are intoxicated by the wine of love. The poet gives more place to the direct depictions concerning wine in his odes in comparison to Sâkî-nârne of which sufistic interpretation pattern is dominantly expressed by the indirect depictions. We firmly hold that Sheikh Al-islam Yahya like other poets who writes rindâne is one of the master poets who can skilfully hide the figurative meaning of wine in the dictionary.