HAYRİYYE-İ NÂBÎ'DE TİPLER.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Nâbî wrote a mesnevi, which he entitled as Hayrinâme, to prepare his seven years old son, Ebu'l-hayr Mehmed çelebi, for the future. This work is also known as Hayriyye-i Nâbî. The poet, who gives religious and moral advices to his son, handled the book as a kind of social and political critique, because he wanted other to get lessons from his long life experience and his bureaucratic tasks and the events he had witnessed. The method of advice giving had been used in works written in previous centuries, such as Kutadgu Bilig and Garip-name. The advices on religion and moral issues in Hayriyye have similarities with the concepts of these works. However, Nâbî differed more on social and political critique.In this mesnevi, the types of governing staff of the Ottoman Empire are introduced in realistic imagery manner and caricatured in a humorous manner at times. In Hayriyye, the types that are the representatives of human and professional categories of society are displayed with their positive and negative aspects. In the work, these types like father, son, notable, pasha, judge, the sheikh, scholar, physician, and a variety of types of women appear to be gossipy. This article tries to examine and introduce these types. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]