The Mystical Poetry of the Turkish-Ottoman Princess Adile Sultan (1826-1899)

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https://doi.org/10.1344/AFLM2020.10.9

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poem, Ottoman, literature, mystic, Adile Sultan, woman, Sufism

Abstract

This article analyzes the mystical poetry of Adile Sultan as a symbol and communication with God. The rich experience of this poet is collected to bring us closer from her vision to the spiritual realities she lived through her poetic work Divan. In her time, poem was the reason for a conversion towards the human model of divine nature that had to be made more sensitive. Like all mystical women of different religions, Adile Sultan also exercised her inner gaze intensely. We will also analyze her life story, her time and Turkish female literature of the 19th and 20th Century.

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2020-12-03

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No. 10 (2020)

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