
Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi: The Poet and His Works
The poet behind the mufti of Amasya: Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's Divançe in the National Library, his fourteen Turkish poems under the pen name Kâmil, his metres and divine love.
The poetry of Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi, mufti of Amasya, and his Turkish poems signed Kâmil in the Divançe, with translation and commentary.

The poet behind the mufti of Amasya: Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's Divançe in the National Library, his fourteen Turkish poems under the pen name Kâmil, his metres and divine love.

The mesnevi that opens Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's Divançe: nineteen couplets on the basmala, praise of God, blessings on the Prophet and loyalty to the Sunni path.

A seven-couplet mesnevi by Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi on a beauty who seized his heart while he was giving counsel: cypress stature, brows like Yemeni swords, the madrasa of love.

A nine-couplet mesnevi by Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi in which the beloved answers the lover's letter: the address "Ḫâcecigim", a promise of union and a closing play on the pen name.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's fifteen-couplet kaside in two different metres: the virtues of a learned, eloquent beauty praised with references to Fuzûlî and Nef'î.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's elif-nâme: a kaside in which each line begins with a letter of the Arabic alphabet, setting the twenty-nine letters from elif to ye in a plea to the beloved.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's muhammes with the refrain "Bir mü'es̱s̱ir nüsḫadır kim nâmı anıñ sîm ü zer": a mocking look at beauties who yield to gold and silver.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's müsemmen with the refrain "Çekeyim tîġımı ben kendime kendim urayım": five stanzas of separation that send word by the morning breeze and end in consent to fate.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's ghazal "Dil yine bir şeh-levendiñ ‘aşḳına sevdâlıdır": seven couplets portraying a beauty with dark-blue eyes, tughra brows and a heart branded like a tulip.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's ghazal with the refrain "ey göñül ... ‘aşḳ": thirteen couplets defining love, from the tughra written in pre-eternity to the bridge of the figurative.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's ghazal with the refrain "görmüş": a lover who met torment while hoping for faithfulness complains of fate, beloved and rival, and ends by urging patience.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's ghazal with the refrain "of": five couplets of sighing over separation from the beloved, a life thrown to the wind and the wish for union in the world of meaning.

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's ghazal "Bu ḳadar ḥasrete ṣabr idemezem sulṭânım": thirteen couplets of longing, fear of being forgotten and the claim to be a "master guide of love".

Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's three-couplet incomplete ghazal: the heart lit by the beloved's gracious glance and a servant who refuses to be freed and finds perfection in service.

The witty couplet Mecdîzâde Hâfız Kâmil Efendi improvised for Hindîzâde Zühdî, boasting in the courtyard of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque: a play on the names Hindî and Kâmil.
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