Folk poets, minstrels and aşıks of Amasya: their lives and the poems and epics preserved in the sources.
Sent from the Hacı Bektaş hearth to Merzifon in 1781 to end a quarrel at the Pîrî Baba lodge, the poet-sheikh from Kırşehir served 28 years and trained two deputies.
From cavalryman to voyvoda of Tokat, Sâbâyî Ahmed Çelebi made his career in the revenue offices, while in Amasya's gatherings he was a witty saz poet who rivalled the divan poets.
Caferî, a pen name of devotion to Imam Cafer-i Sadık, survives in a list of Gaziler Ovacığı minstrels based on a Gümüşhacıköy book; no other record has been found.
Turab Ali, named among the minstrels of Gaziler Ovacığı in Amasya: his name appears in a list based on a book on Gümüşhacıköy; no other record has been found.
Hızır Sersem Baba, remembered as the guide of Kul Hüseyin of Keçiköy: an elder of the region or Hızır personified, the tomb at Karatepe and the state of the sources.
Gulamî, Alevi minstrel of Merzifon: the little known of him, his deyiş "Cemal Efendim" for Cemalettin Efendi, çelebi of Hacı Bektaş, and his namesake from Sivas.
Esrarî, Alevi-Bektashi minstrel of the Merzifon area: his devotion to the çelebis Feyzullah and Cemalettin, two deyiş preserved in songbooks, and "Gidiyor" of 1915.
Derviş Edna (1878-1928), Alevi minstrel of Karahisar in Çorum: his devotion to Kul Fakir of Merzifon, his legends, the Akkubbe tomb and forty collected deyiş.
Kul Hüseyin, Alevi minstrel of Keçiköy: his attachment to Hızır Sersem Baba, the legend of his musahip İbrahim Derviş, the Kul Hüseyin branch and seventy-three deyiş.
Âşık Mehmet İnan of Yeşilöz: the 1960 gathering at which he hosted Âşık Veysel, the exchanged instruments and his taped telling of the Aleppo branch of Köroğlu.
Ali Cem Akbulut (b. 1978) of Harız, folk poet writing as Esedî and Rüsvaî: his nefes-style poetry, his books on the minstrels of Gaziler Ovacığı and his anthology.
Yanyatan Ali (1923-1990) of Diphacı near Merzifon was a zakir of the Kul Hüseyin branch who collected the district's deyiş, made bağlamas and gave Hicabî Derviş his pen name.
Born in Sarımeşe (Efte), Ozan Fedaî, Fedai Koç (1956-2024), spent most of his life driving lorries in Germany and sang of history and Amasya in Azad Eyle.
Filib, the name read in the pen-name stanza of a semai in the Merzifon Cönkü: the doubtful reading, the possibility of a non-Muslim poet and the stanza itself.
Cezbî, reported to have a syllabic poem in the Merzifon Cönkü: his place in it, the meaning of his pen name and the quatrain printed under his name that is Bezmî's.
Âşık Mustafa, with a single ghazal in aruz in the Merzifon Cönkü: his place in the manuscript, the article's syllabic-aruz slip and the first two couplets.
Mahsûnî, with a single koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: his place in the manuscript, his link with Amasya, a possible reading Mahzûnî, and his first quatrain.
Fethî, with five koşmas in the Merzifon Cönkü: a local poet who addressed the Merzifon beauty Gülfadik, the view that he compiled the cönk, and his namesakes.
Gedâyî, with two koşmas in the Merzifon Cönkü: the case for Tokatlı Gedâî, apprentice of Erzurumlu Emrah, his link with Amasya and the opening quatrains.
Bezmî, with a müseddes and a koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the case for Âşık Bezmî of Çankırı, the Bezmîs of Merzifon and Amasya in Hüsameddin, and his poems.
Feyzî, represented by a single ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: his place in the manuscript, his slender link with Amasya and why his identity cannot be established.
Kul Hasan, the shepherd minstrel who by local accounts lived in Harız near Merzifon in the 18th-19th centuries: his stand against the kadı, his five lost children, his deyiş.
Sıdkî Baba, Bektashi poet who served the çelebis Feyzullah and Cemaleddin at Hacıbektaş and settled in Harız near Merzifon in 1894: his life, pen names and deyiş.
Biçare Mehmet, Alevi eren of Dağsaray who lost his sight at seven and took Kul Fakır as his guide: his life, the Gaziler Ovacığı circle and his disputed tie to Amasya.
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.
Âşık Dursun's name appears in the lists of Gaziler Ovacığı minstrels by Yücel and by Özer and Topal; no other record of his life or poems has been found.
Âşık Engunî's name appears in the list of Amasya minstrels in the book Dünden Bugüne Gümüşhacıköy; no other record of his life or poems has been found.
Âşık Musa Aslan, born in Ardahan, trained at the Hacıbektaş lodge and settled in Merzifon in 1925: his life, his circle and nine songs in the TRT repertoire.
Âşık Deli, represented by one koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the record of a minstrel named in no other source, the pen name Deli, Merzifon as a halt for minstrels.
Rızâ, represented by one ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü calling the Sufi to the dhikr circle: its lodge-poetry tone, its repetition in the article and poets of the same name.
Zahmî, represented by a müseddes on the mourning of Muharram in the Merzifon Cönkü: the Karbala elegy, its repetition in the article and poets of the same pen name.
Mısrî, represented by one ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: the meaning of the pen name, poets who shared it, the Niyâzî-i Mısrî possibility and an identity still unresolved.
Berkî, represented by one semâî in the Merzifon Cönkü and read with a question mark: the Amasya poet Berkî Hasan Çelebi and the unresolved question of identity.
Serbesî, known only from one divânî in the Merzifon Cönkü: the single record of a poet named in no other source, the question of identity and a poem on Jacob and Joseph.
Sürûrî, whose single koşma survives in the Merzifon Cönkü: his record in the cönk, his relation to Gelibolulu Sürûrî, the Sürûrîs of Amasya and Silleli Sürûrî, and his poem.
Zihnî, whose single koşma survives in the Merzifon Cönkü: his record in the cönk, his relation to Bayburtlu Zihnî and the Zihnîs of Amasya, and his letter poem.
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