ÖĞÜT, Serdal Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi - Sağlık Yüksekokulu - Beslenme ve Diyetetik Bölümü, Türkiye

THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN ARAB ALAVITES: THE SAMPLE OF HATAY

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Bektashi literature is one of the important branches of our Religious Folk literature. In our history there are lots of Bektashi poets who wrote very nicely about Bektashi culture. Poets, having adapted Bektashi culture, reflect the characteristics of minstrel literature in prosody, rhyme, verse types and language. These poets who shape their philosophies according to Alewi-Bektashi culture, base their poems on a mystical and metaphysical ground. Deeply touched and moved by Alewi-Bektashi culture, these poets treat Alewi-Bektashi culture with a manner, convenance and discipline. Alewi-Bektashi poetry is a type of poetry enriched with certain notions peculiar to it. Today there are many poets in Tokat who strive to keep Alewi-Bektashi culture alive as well as the ones who worked hard to introduce this culture in Tokat and its surrounding in the past. Abdullah Öğüt who used Ayık Hoca as a pseudonym in his poems was a very well known poet in Bektashi poets’ society. Ayık Hoca is a Bektashi- Alewi poet who lived in Tokat. Ayık Hoca spent his life in Zile and Turhal, districts of Tokat, and engaged in teaching and became an Alewî Dede and an opinion leader in the region. In this paper the details about his life and six poems of him are given. This research is also important in terms of being the first study carried out on Ayık Hoca, a respectable figure of the region. In addition, this study reflects the region’s stance on the Alewi-Bektashi belief through Ayık Hoca.

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Abdullah Öğüt , Ayık Hoca , Alevî , Bektashi culture , Bektashi poet , Tokat

Turkish Culture and Haci Bektash Veli Research Quarterly

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