Safahat
Safahat is a work that brings together the poems in seven poetry books by Mehmet Âkif Ersoy published between 1911 and 1933.
The work is one of the most read poetry and intellectual books in Türkiye.
The subjects of the poems it contains are the social problems, historical and religious issues of the period.
Safahat, which literally means "different faces of life", has become the common name of all seven books, however, only the poet's first poetry book, published in 1911, bore the name "Safahat" when it was published.
The poet's other books published later are called "second book" and "third book" and have their own subtitles.
The subtitles of the books collected under the name Safahat are, respectively: Safahat (1911), Süleymaniye Kursüsünde (1912), Hakın Sesleri (1913), Fatih Kursüsünde (1914) Memories (1917), Asım (1924), Gölgeler (1933)..
The works that make up Safahat had been published separately until then, but they were published together Show More
