Gubari's Verse Narrative on Pilgrime Written in Prison

Abstract

The poems dealing with prisonlife are called habsiyye. Gubari who a poet of Kanuni's period composed a verse narrative called Menasikü'l-hac, which is a habsiyye. In the narrative Gubari remarks his desire to visit Ka'be after being released from prison. He also relates principles of performing Hacc (pilgrimage). In the narrative of appreximately 370 couplets is expressed genuinely calamaties of prisonlife, desire of releasing from prison, and negative effects of prison on soul.