The Poems About the Prophet in Divan Poetry

Example of Mawlid / Mi’rajiyya by Salahaddin-i Uşşaki Salâhî

Abstract

In this paper we tried to give overview of the Ottoman divan poems which deal with religious themes, with a special emphasis on the poems that treat life, appearance and personality of the Prophet Muhammad a.s. In this overview we concentrated on works by Abdullah Salahaddin-i Uşşaki Salâhî who with his rich poetical oeuvre gives enough material. Therefore, the general remarks about these thematic groups of poems were given, as well as the comments on the most important authors and Bosnian translations published so far. The examples were cited through the translation of Salâhî’s verses. Our focus was on the poem which is Mawlid, according to one of the greatest modern experts on Salâhî’s work, Mehmet Akkuş. In the paper, the poem is presented integrally in our Bosnian translation, as an argument to our assumption that, in this case, the poem actually deals with Prophet’s Ascension to the skies.