Sheikhulislam Jahja and his gazels

Abstract

This paper represents eight gazelas written by Shejhulislam Jahja’s (1552—1644), one of the most famous Turkish divan poets, master of gazelas. His poems were
transcribed, many poets imitated his poems so that his poems can be found in a great number of manuscripts in libraries in Bosnias and Herzegovina.
Facsimile for this paper are based on Shejhulislam Jahja’ s Divan manuscript now in the possession of the asuthor of this article.