RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE DIVAN OF IBRAHIM HAKKI ERZURUMI

Ibrahim Hakkı Erzurumi is an important historical personality in Turkish literature and Sufi‟s History. The Sufi writer was born in Erzurum in 1703 in the beginning of the 18th century. He died in Siirt in 1780 about 80 years old. He was buried in Tillo that belongs to Siirt town in Turkey. Although his writings in poetry and prose around 15, he was often known by his writings entitled the Divan and Marifetname (Book of Gnosis). Because he was a Sufi, he grew up with a Sufi upbringing and wrote most of his works in this context. A great part of his poems were considered an important source to be sung in the religious and Sufi festivals. The Divan is a work of poems written by Ġbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi in 1755. Then, he continued writing about 366 poems with a religious and Sufi content. This volume has the title “Ilahi Nameh” Then, there are poems have the titles like vocabulary, Quatrains, Wasil Nameh, Band Nameh and Shukur Nameh. His poems that included in the Divan about 500 poems. The Divan, which dealt with several Sufi and religious instruction, focused on the form of religious education. Religious Education is transforming the religious subjects into the followers of that religion specially children. This can be applied also on adults. This method of teaching which can be made among teachers and students, teaches the basic principles of the religion which include worshipping, obedience, morality, and rituals. Every teacher and school have their own techniques and special concentration. The Islamic Sufi Shaykhs (Old men or Imams) in the first position among people who study the Sufi Interpretation to religion. Ġbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi depended on a religious Sufi teaching method in his poetic work entitled The Divan. This research paper starts with this detailed abstract. It is followed by a brief summary about the life of the great Turkish poet Ġbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi and his literary carrier alongside with the religious and Sufi aspect. There will be a detailed explanation for his work entitled The Divan. Then, there will be a study for the form of religious education in details. Finally, this research paper will be concluded with a study of the concept of religious Education in The Divan of Ġbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi.