Kadı Burhaneddin, ruler of Sivas and poet: his divan, poems and indirect connection with Amasya.
The single-copy divan of the poet-sultan Kadı Burhaneddin of Sivas, his ghazals and tuyughs, its editions, and the traces his wars with Amasya's emirs left in his verse.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet naming Amasya as an example of plunder: the beloved's image coming at night is wished for as a raid upon the lover's soul.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet likening his heart to Amasya: the beloved's eye lays the heart's city waste, and the image of that same eye could rebuild it.
Kadı Burhaneddin's tuyugh naming Amasya and Niksar: beside an ambition that roams the two worlds, the cities of rival emirates appear as small targets.
Kadı Burhaneddin's tuyugh naming Timur and Toktamış: a ruler who submits to what was written in pre-eternity and trusts in God defies the great powers of his age.
Kadı Burhaneddin's tuyugh of wisdom on worldly life: the world is a passage through which all who come pass on, yet for the foremost in valour it is capital.
Kadı Burhaneddin's tuyugh naming Syria and Rum: the words of a ruler who is iron to the enemy and wax to the friend, and the trace of his alliance with Barquq and Bayezid.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet beginning "I am a Turk and you a Tatar": a challenge telling Timur to keep off Anatolia, and its double face in the language of the ghazal.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet on his native city: the wish to make a river of tears and turn Kayseri into Baghdad, and the likeness of the Tigris and Kızılırmak.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet naming Sivas with Shiraz: if the beloved has turned the poet into a Sa'di, he may well make the capital Sivas a land of Shiraz.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet naming the castle of Tokat: morning wine poured in the castle and the wish to reach the dawn in joy, in Özkan's view a trace of victory.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet on the conquest of the castle of Simâlu: the pun between its name and "sîmâlu" (fair-faced) binds the victory to the beloved's beauty.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet pairing Anatolia and Turkestan with the beloved's face and eye: a heart at home in the land of Rum that still longs for its roots.
Kadı Burhaneddin's couplet contrasting prayer niche and battlefield: the Sufi's wish is prayer, the valiant man's desire is the field; the voice of a warrior sultan-poet.
Kadı Burhaneddin's tuyugh of raging lions and a double sword cut by lightning, following old Turkic expressions such as "kağan aslan" and "koş kılıç".
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet addressing the beloved as one would a sultan: a love that will last until death and a raging lion that fears nothing at all.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet setting the stone of cruelty against a heart of glass: the fragile heart is not made of Shiraz iron, an antithesis of stone and glass.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet likening the pain of love to a distilling workshop: the beloved's eyes turn the liver's blood to water by the heart's fire.
Kadı Burhaneddin's tuyugh carrying a call to war against the Mamluks: God knows the cure, and if arrow and sword are used in sincerity the rock of Egypt will be torn out.
Kadı Burhaneddin's tuyugh measuring joy by Baghdad: hearts freed from sorrow are gladdened, and the world honoured by his name turns into a city like Baghdad.
Kadı Burhaneddin's tuyugh likening the beloved's eyes to Baghdad's tricksters and lips to Anatolia's wine-sellers: a beauty each of whose graces builds this world.
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