İBRAHİM SABRİ'S ELEGY TO MEHMED AKIF'S CLOSE FRIEND BABANZÂDE AHMED NAİM

Abstract

Mr. İbrahim Sabri is an intellectual who combines his life with the exiles he has lived since his early youth. His father is Mustafa Sabri Efendi, one of the last Şeyhülislams of the Ottoman Empire. İbrahim Sabri, who went through a good education as the son of a scholar father, is one of the rare personalities who can raise himself even under difficult conditions by not neglecting his education despite the exiles he has lived through as a family. We tried to, bring his poetry to light accumulation with his work titled Selections from the "Pieces of Egypt" prepared by us (with Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu and Filiz Kalyon). İbrahim Sabri, who started to write poems when he was still young, also started an academic life in the maturity period of his life. In his work titled "Egyptian Dâneleri", he wrote poems or set dates for some personalities that he found remarkable or highly valued. One of the personalities to whom İbrahim Sabri Bey wrote a dedication poem is Babanzâde Ahmed Naim. The elegy written by İbrahim Sabri for Babanzâde Ahmed Naim, one of Mehmed Âkif Ersoy's close friends, bears the phrase "August 10, 1934, Heliopolis" as date and place. The death of Ahmed Naim, one of the teachers of Darü'l-Fünûn, deeply affected İbrahim Sabri and he wrote his elegy named "Naim Bey". In this study, the death of Ahmed Naim, a close friend of Mehmed Akif Ersoy, the sadness of Mehmet Akif, the poet of the National Anthem, and the "Naim Bey" elegy of İbrahim Sabri will be evaluated.