Âşıklık Geleneğinde Sefil Mahlaslı Halk Şairleri

This study focuses on the poets who use Sefil (means poor/wretch) pseudonym and Sefil pseudonym in Turkish Folk Literature. The study aims to make some explanations about the reasons of pseudonym usage by focusing on a common pseudonym with the transfer of poets with the same pseudonym while drawing attention to the reasons of pseudonym usage.In the study, a list of folk poets using Sefil pseudonym and their determination from many conks (a kind of diary or notepad which contains poetries) in private and official libraries are also given. It wasdetermined that seventy-four folk poets used the pseudonym “Sefil”. Thus, it will be seen that folk poets, who preferred the pseudonym of “Sefil”, also facilitated the clues about both time and placeand the lore and sufism circles to which they belong. Since the use of pseudonym in poetry is common, it is not possible to restrict a particular pseudonym using a specific Sufi school. However, it is possible to say that the poets who used the pseudonym “Sefil” is mostly in circles with Alawi Bektashi poetry tradition. In order to facilitate the understandingof this issue, both the list of poets who use the “Sefil” pseudonym in the selected cönks, which is evaluated for this study and the works of poets who use the “Sefil” pseudonym will be given withexamples.As a result, the study dealt with the people of “Sefil” pseudonym poets and by calling himself/herself “Sefil”, he/she pulls himself/herself into ruin and gives the impression that he/she has avoidedthe arrogance and ego that he/she has loaded and tries to direct. The poet expresses the depth and influence in his/her poetry with his/her pseudonym “Sefil”, which he/she prefers to attract himself/herself to modesty or to protect himself/herself modestly.