VEF T-I NEB OF MOLLA VEL MOLLA VEL ’N N VEF T-I NEB ’S

Among the religious works, the ones about Prophet Mohamed are much more paid attention. His life, personality, hadiths, holy wars, and his miracles have inspired Turkish poets.The works on Prophet Mohamed’s dead are called as Vefat- Neb . Vefat- Neb is generally included as a separate section in the works on Prophet’s life, especially in mawlids or in religious works. The work studied in this paper is a Vefat- Neb recorded on behalf of Molla Veli. It has the characteristics of Old Anatolian Turkish Language. Like most of poets of Turkish literature, Molla Veli was also influenced by mawlid of Suleiman helebi. The vocabulary index and way of speech has the quality of guidance for the works on its time period. In Vefat- Neb written in religious-epic narrative style, even though the author’s aim of enlightening is dominant, it is also seen that he succeeded literary aesthetics from time to time. Dini türler aras nda zellikle, Hz. Muhammed ile ilgili olan türlere daha ok ilgi g sterilmi tir. Onun hayat ki ili i, hadisleri, gazalar ve mucizeleri Türk airleri i in tükenmez bir ilham kayna olmu tur. Hz. Muhammed’in vefat ile ilgili olaylar n anlat ld eserlere Vefat- Neb ismi verilir. Vefat- Neb ’ler genellikle, peygamberin hayat n n anlat ld eserlerin, zellikle ‘mevlid’lerin veya baz dini konulu eserlerin i inde ayr bir b lüm olarak kar m za kar. al maya konu olan eser, Molla Veli ad na kay tl olan bir Vefat- Neb ’dir. Eser, Eski Anadolu Türk esi’nin karakteristik zelliklerini ta maktad r. Türk edebiyat ndaki pek ok air gibi Molla Veli de Süleyman elebi’nin mevlidinden etkilenmi tir. Kullan lan kelime kadrosu ve ifade tarz , d nemle ilgili yap lacak al malara kaynakl kedecek niteliktedir. Dini-destans anlat m tarz yla kaleme al nan Vefat- Neb ’de her ne kadar okuyucuyu bilgilendirme, ayd nlatma kayg s n planda olsa da airin yer yer edebi zevki yakalad g rülmü tür.