The poetry of Fedâî Baba (1855-1940), Hak âşığı of Yassıçal: the divan compiled by Çelebi, his Alevi-Bektashi and Sufi deyiş, Karbala and Atatürk poems.
The poetry of Fedâî Baba, Hak âşığı of Yassıçal: the 252-poem divan compiled by Çelebi, the pen name received in a dream, Sufi and Alevi-Bektashi belief, Karbala and Atatürk.
Fedâî Baba's plea to Hızır voiced by travellers trapped by snow on a mountain: the February blizzard and a koşma with the refrain "come to my aid, Hızır".
The voice of a gnostic who finds everything within himself: Fedâî Baba's koşma with the redif "I found within my self", Adam's names and the Hurufi line.
Fedâî Baba's koşma with the refrain "in truth the Kaaba is the face of man": a poem that gives each rite of pilgrimage an inner meaning and seeks the Kaaba in man.
Book learning and hidden knowledge set apart: Fedâî Baba's three-quatrain koşma on the "ilm-i câvidan", the spiritual guide and the hatt-ı istivâ.
A poem of hidden knowledge woven with letter and number symbolism: Fedâî Baba's lesson beginning with Alif, the seven verses of the Fatiha and 28 letters.
Fedâî Baba's eulogy of Ali: five quatrains of praise woven with al-Aliyy al-A'la, Hal ata, la fata, the voice in the crane and the four gates and forty stations.
A poet walking through the house of the body: Fedâî Baba's koşma built on the caged nightingale, the turning mill, the seven-headed dragon and the lion's cub.
An elegy uniting the wound of love and the grief of Karbala: Fedâî Baba on three letters and five dots, the 73 martyrs, the Muharram fast and Kasım's henna.
A pain that turns away both Plato and Lokman: Fedâî Baba's koşma with the redif "within", built on images of medicine and ending with Hüseyin's Karbala pain.
A Muharram lament in which all creation weeps for Hüseyin: Fedâî Baba's elegy of five quatrains with the refrain "they moan and weep, crying Ah Hüseyin".
A declaration of faith on behalf of a community: Fedâî Baba's ghazal with the redif "-danız", naming tevellâ, teberrâ, the vow, the saved sect and the Ja'fari school.
Praise of Ali through the letters from Alif to Ya: Fedâî Baba's alphabet eulogy citing the Qur'an, the twelve imams, Balım Sultan and Kızıl Deli.
Praise of Mustafa Kemal in the language of Sufism: Fedâî Baba's ghazal with the redif "you became", naming the pole, the hidden saints, the Republic and the railways.
A nefes that reads the human face through the twelve imams: Fedâî Baba's short poem giving eyes, lips, brows and forehead to the imams and calling the face Umm al-Kitab.
A voice from the years of the War of Independence: Fedâî Baba's poem with the redif "we are not", declaring "our origin is Turk" and standing against the Greeks.
Fedâî Baba's lament on Atatürk's death: the refrain "the father of the Turks has passed away" and the Republic seen by a villager, from the tithe to free medicine.
The surviving quatrain in which Fedâî Baba calls Amasya "our home province" and, with the refrain "our wish is Hubuyar Sultan", voices his longing for a saint's threshold.
The surviving quatrain in which Fedâî Baba names his town Amasya and his native village Ebemü (Yassıçal), praising its spring streams and the rushing flood of Dive.
The quatrain in which Fedâî Baba tells how the saints gave him his pen name in a dream: the bade tradition, the "sincere heart", the saint's gaze and the meaning of Fedâî.
Fedâî Baba's reproachful quatrain: even if he worked miracles, scattered pearls from his mouth and flew to heaven, people would not believe him and would call him a sorcerer.
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