Abstract
Hazık was born in Erzurum in löŞO.üis real name was Kehmed. Because it was accepted that he was a descendant of our Prophet, he also was named Seyyid Mehmed. In his poems, he used the pseudonym, Hazık. He was the son of Ebu Bekr Efendi from Ispir,who was a theological scholar in Erzurum. In `Büyük Tefsir Tarihi`, it is written that Ebu Bekr Efendi came to Erzurum from somewhere around Kara bag about 2.5 centuries ago. Hazık, who was born as a son of a scholar, got a good education for that period. In his early years, he was taught by Müfti Ömer Efendi who was a well-known scholar and a professor in Ihla s iye Medresesi and Ka- zabadi Ahmed Efendi. Then he completed his education studying with his father, Ebu Bekr Efendi, the professor of Feyziye Medresesi. After having completed his education, Hazık worked as a professor both in Yazıcı zade Ibrahim Efendi Medresesi and Hatuniyye Medresesi which is today known as Double Minaret s.Hazik, who taught several sub jects in Erzurum for 50 y ears, e du oat e d many valuable theological schol ars. Ibrahim Hakkı, who was a great learned Seyh and very popular with his great work Harifetname was one of them. Hazık taught Persian to him. Hazık was appointed Müftü of Erzurum in 1756. When he died in 1762 he was still in charge of the same post.He was buried in Erzurum. By his poems in his Divan, we learn that he lived in Istanbul, Çıldır and Ahisha besides Erzurum, his home town. Hazık was a very well educated poet. The literary sources describes him a skilful literary man and a great poet. In his poetry, Hazık gives `the meaning` a great importance.For him the main thing in the poetry is the meaning and a poem formed by mean ingless pompous words is worthless. Besides meaning, he attaches importance to s ens e (mazmun) as well. He believes that in the real poetry sense and meaning complete each other. fie is under the influence of Hef'i in his Kas ide s and Habi in his Gaz els. His most beautiful poems are his Qazels.In most of his Gazels, meaning is first in importance then feeling and image come. By his Gazels, he can be defined as the poet of thoughts and epigrams. This kind of Gazels are mostly didactic rather than lyric. Besides these Gaze İs, Hazık has some others in the style of clas sical Divan poetry. In those Gazels, feeling, images, love,wine, lover, music and his complaints about fate, rival and time are first in im portance. In these lyric poems, classical senses and literary arts have been skilfully used. By some of his Gaze 1b, we see that he was familiar with tasavvuf, vahdet -i vûcud.But in these Gazels, Hazık is seen a pure muslim rather than a sufi. Hazık gives a wide place to his home town, Erzurum in the Gazels part of his Divan. Hazık has got an easy, fluent, smooth style in his poems. We rarely meet rude and ugly words in his poems. Those rude and ugly words are only those which are told `rakib`. The dominant elements in his poems are gravity »kindnesB and softness. HİS WORKS 1-Divan 2-Talıkat ala Tefsiri' 1-Beyzavi 3-Petvalar 358