THE MUWASHSHAHS (ACROSTIC POEMS) IN SULTAN WALAD’S DIWAN

Sultan Walad is one of the great intellectual figures of his era. He has considered his father's legacy in an outstanding way and has conveyed this legacy to the present day through his excellent organization. His interest in poetry and his poetry as a poet complements an important part of his intellectual personality. The great contribution of Sultan Walad in four languages -Persian, Turkish, Arabic and Greek- like his father, is enormous in every aspect of his developing Turkish literature. Sultan Walad, who adorned his diwan with almost all the forms and shapes of classical poetry, also by using the muwashshah (acrostic) species gave the first examples of this species in Anatolia. The muwashshah (acrostic) odes in diwan are about; Alamaddin Kaysar, Majdaddin Ali bin Mohammad, Sharafaddin Ibn-i Hateraddin, Tajaddin Hosayn and Akmaladdin Moayyad Nahjevani