
Dervişoğlu: An Alevi Minstrel from Diphacı near Merzifon
Dervişoğlu Mehmet, Alevi-Bektashi minstrel born in Diphacı near Merzifon, wounded on the Eastern front and dead in Ankara in 1915: his life, circle and five deyiş.
Dervişoğlu Mehmet (d. 1915), Alevi-Bektashi minstrel of Diphacı near Merzifon: his life, Kul Fakır's circle and the five deyiş that survive.

Dervişoğlu Mehmet, Alevi-Bektashi minstrel born in Diphacı near Merzifon, wounded on the Eastern front and dead in Ankara in 1915: his life, circle and five deyiş.

Dervişoğlu's deyiş of separation with the refrain "Nazlı yarden ayrı düştüm ağladım": the vow of pre-eternity, devotion to a true guide and the word the jeweller sells.

Dervişoğlu's three-quatrain deyiş of the cem: the voice of a zakir who calls the souls to the station of unity, seeks a salve for broken hearts and keeps to his beloved's trace.

Dervişoğlu's deyiş of counsel with the refrain "Her daim bu yola çalışmalıdır": the minstrel as God's herald, Ali's path, nightingales singing for Hüseyin and Khidr's company.

Dervişoğlu's reproachful love deyiş with the redif "dilber": a sorrowful beloved, rivals blocking the way and a quatrain that brings Edna, Fakır and Biçare together.

Dervişoğlu's deyiş of counsel to the heart: a heart that thinks itself wise, a secret told to the ignorant, a stream crossed instead of the ocean, and the inn of this world.
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