TURKISH POEMS AND PERSIAN QUATRAIN BY ABD AL-RAHMāN KHāL？？ AL-KERKūKī

Abstract The Turkish poems in Khalis’s Divan is the most beatiful examples of the divan literature. These poems describe the love of God in the most beautiful way and filled with literary arts. There are ten Turkish poems and five Persian quatrain in Divan. Divan, containing Persian and Turkish poems, was published along with Kitab al-Mearif Fi ？erh-i Mathnawi Sharif by Abd al-Rahman Khalis al-Kirkuki (1275/1858), is a Persian poetic commentary on the first eighteen couplets of Rumi’s (672/1273) Mathnawi Ma'nawi. Khalis is the founder of Qadiriyya-Khalisiyya branch. This study included Khalis’s Turkish poems and Persian quatrai