Religious ideology in Namik Sultan's poetic discourse

Abstract

The religious ideology carried by the poet must leave its touch in his poetry, and this effect may seem obvious or it may be hidden, which requires scrutiny and starting to reveal it through criticism and analysis of the discourse and returning to the poet’s background to decipher the blockages of the poem and the ideas it contains.

We notice this in Sultan’s poems, where they include many moderate Islamic concepts that do not explain the text with strictness, racism, or even bias to a particular sect. What we find from Sultan’s poems is that there is an Islamic impact in Sultan’s poems as a result of the influence of the environment in which he lived, for example, but we cannot discover the poet's religious affiliation.

 We also note that the poet does not quote religious texts in a completely direct manner, but rather uses embedding and symbolizing to express the meaning that the poet wants. However, in some poems he gives the poem a clear and explicit religious name, including stories about prophets or some general religious concepts.

We conclude that the poet was influenced by religious ideology, not by religious political ideology, which would have a negative impact on poetry. There is no presence in Sultan’s poetry of the only sacred source confined to a group or absolute legitimacy or eligibility and the like, so the poet seems moderate in religion in his prominent personality in poems.