Kara Fazlî of Prince Mustafa's circle at Amasya: poems from his divan and his masnavi Gül ü Bülbül, with original text, translation and commentary.
The poetry of Kara Fazlî, Prince Mustafa's divan secretary in Amasya: the mesnevi Gül ü Bülbül, kasides for the prince, chronograms for his court, the Lâdik ghazal and elegies.
The seventeen-couplet tevhid that opens Kara Fazlî's divan, describing through images of sparrow, rider and caravan how reason fails to grasp the essence of God.
Kara Fazlî's fifteen-couplet kaside of praise that lists the attributes and names of God and, in a mystical couplet of reversed words, tells how all being comes from Him.
Kara Fazlî's na't that opens with an Arabic couplet, praises the Prophet as padishah of the realm of prophethood and alludes to the poet's own epithet with "yüzi ḳara".
Kara Fazlî's second na't of fifteen couplets, praising the Prophet as the cause of creation and the direction of prayer, and asking for intercession with allusions to Jesus.
Kara Fazlî's fifty-seven-couplet na't using the words "şütür" (camel) and "ḥücre" (cell) in every line, moving from counsel to longing for a journey to the Prophet's cell.
Kara Fazlî's twenty-three-couplet kaside of counsel on the transience of the world, set out in contrasts such as palace and grave, sable fur and shroud.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-five-couplet mystical kaside urging the soul beyond selfhood to unity and listing in order the ten conditions of the path, from surrender to patience.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-five-couplet mystical kaside with the redif "-sındayuz", in which dervishes answer the ascetic and portray lovers who set no value on the world.
Kara Fazlî's forty-five-couplet maktel kaside with the refrain "Yā Ḥüseyn", praising Hüseyin, calling all of nature to mourn him and praying by the twelve imams.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-five-couplet kaside of praise for Sultan Süleyman, with the redif "fetḥ", depicting a city decked out at news of victory and the sultan's battlefields.
Kara Fazlî's forty-three-couplet kaside of praise on Süleyman's eastern campaign against the Kızılbaş, its military band and cannon, and the Rumelian beylerbeyi Ali.
Kara Fazlî's fifty-couplet sûriyye describing a palace wedding at the Hippodrome, with jugglers, sugar figures, a banquet and fireworks, and praising Sultan Süleyman.
Kara Fazlî's forty-nine-couplet second sûriyye, in which an angel announces the princes' circumcision feast, its banquet and fireworks, followed by praise of Süleyman.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-seven-couplet kaside on his appointment as secretary of Prince Mustafa's council in Amasya after 1543, celebrating his fortune and praising the prince.
Kara Fazlî's forty-eight-couplet kaside that praises the worth of speech and poetry, mocks false poets and then praises Prince Mustafa, asking for his patronage.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-two-couplet Nevruz kaside with the refrain "nevrūz", describing spring with a secretary's pen and likening Prince Mustafa's face to Nevruz.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-five-couplet kaside of holy war on Prince Mustafa setting out against the Kızılbaş by the sultan's command, praising him as "a second Rüstem".
Kara Fazlî's thirty-four-couplet kaside with the redif "‘adl", praising Prince Mustafa's justice in a chain of metaphors and ending with the poet's plea against his fortune.
Kara Fazlî's twenty-nine-couplet kaside praising Prince Mustafa's four-year-old son Prince Mehmed with proverbs and wordplay and praying for his long life.
Kara Fazlî's kaside for the Feast of Ramadan, which describes the crescent in a chain of images, praises Prince Mustafa and voices the hope of his accession.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-seven-couplet kaside that opens with the pilgrimage and the Feast of Sacrifice, plays on musical modes and praises Prince Mustafa above all princes.
Kara Fazlî's kaside that praises his dead horse in hyperbolic images, mourns it in the language of chess and asks Prince Mustafa for a new mount.
Kara Fazlî's kaside that describes the pilgrimage and the sacrifices in hyperbolic language, praises Prince Mustafa in chess terms and sets a nine-couplet ghazal within.
Kara Fazlî's kaside that uses the words sword and pen together in almost every couplet, arguing that the two are inseparable, and praises Prince Mustafa.
Kara Fazlî's twenty-nine-couplet kaside that opens with chess terms, describes his scrawny horse in comic language and then asks Prince Mustafa for a new mount.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-couplet winter kaside that portrays winter as a sultan invading the realm of the garden and links the silver of snow to Prince Mustafa's bounty.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-three-couplet kaside with the refrain "-dür bugün", celebrating like a feast Prince Selim's arrival in Bursa and his meeting there with Süleyman.
Kara Fazlî's late kaside for Prince Selim, using the words "throne" and "crown" in every one of its forty-two couplets, each time in a new figure.
Kara Fazlî's seventy-one-couplet sûriyye for Prince Selim on the circumcision feast of his son Murad, with its banquet, nahıl, mock galleys and fireworks.
Kara Fazlî's forty-three-couplet autumn kaside for Prince Selim, with a nesib on autumn's ruin of the garden, a ghazal-like interlude and praise of his justice.
Kara Fazlî's thirty-four-couplet kaside of praise from the tehniyetname he wrote for Ahmed Çelebi on his appointment as defterdar of the tımars of Rumelia in 954 (1547).
Kara Fazlî's thirty-two-couplet kaside praising Sun'ullah, again vizier to Prince Mustafa, with the moon of justice, Âsaf and Hâtem, and letters that spell "reason".
Kara Fazlî's forty-two-couplet autumn kaside, opening with a picture of the fading garden and praising the chancellor Celâlzâde Mustafa Çelebi for his verse, pen and generosity.
Kara Fazlî's last kaside, thirty-five couplets opening with a praise of knowledge and praising Hᵛâce-i Şân, thought to be the Gülşenî sheikh Zarîfî Hasan Efendi.
Kara Fazlî's plain-spoken five-stanza murabba with the refrain "Yüri şāhum yüri Allah'uma ṣaldum", leaving to God a faithless beloved who has favoured the rival.
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