Veiled Expressions of the Sacred: Ghazal, Genre, and Mystical Experience in Neshāṭī’s Poetry
Religions March 27, 2026 Muhammed Tarik Ablak
This article examines how religious experience is articulated through genre in the poetry of the seventeenth-century Ottoman Mawlawī shaykh Neshāṭī (d. 1674), focusing on the striking contrast between his ghazals and non-ghazal compositions. While Neshāṭī’s qaṣīdas, mathnawīs and other formal genres employ an explicit and direct religious language—addressing God, the Prophet, sacred figures,...