In Karakoç’s Poetry, Meaning and Use of the Concept of God in Terms of Islamic Sufism Epistemology

Abstract

In this work, the conceptualisation of God in Sezai Karakoç, who, in his poem, tries to reflect the metaphysical feeling significantly in modern Turkish poetry is going to be discussed. It has been seen that God, who was pushed to the shore of life in the modernity process, has been attempted to place in a central position again in Karakoç poetry. It has been seen that human being, matter and nature have been repositioned according to the traditional understanding that God is at the center. In poems, it has been found that the concept of God is considered more like the God in understanding of Being in Tasavvuf. It is seen that the epistemology of Tasavvuf, in which the entity is divided into two as “absolute being” and “relative being”, is accepted in many poems of Karakoç in a similar way. As a basic source in the study, Karakoç’s collective poems called Gün Doğmadan were taken as basis and partly as a result of thought writings.