Ottoman Poetry has a content that includes all stages of life. All issues of social life from birth to death, from wedding to feast, from circumcision to conquests were discussed in Ottoman Poetry and expressed in an aesthetic style. In Ottoman Poetry, it has become a tradition to deal with some events related to daily life and even independent literary genres have been formed around these events. One of them is death, which reflects the philosophy of creation, longing, mourning, world and afterlife concepts, fears, or praises. Death as an inevitable result of life has been discussed many times in both independent and other literary genres in Ottoman Poetry. The most common genres that deal with the subject of death are history poems and elegy. One of the poets who included the event of death extensively in the historical poems of his divan is Nûrî Osmân from Chania. The most important features of the poet’s historical poems are that they contain a rich vocabulary about death, are large in number, contain biographical information, reflect the content characteristics of elegies and biographies, and express thoughts about creation. The rich cultural texture and vocabulary in these death chronograms stem from the fact that the poet was a Sufi and a biographer. In our study, first of all, the vocabulary of death was determined in the death chronograms in the Divan of Nûrî Osman from Chania. Then, in the light of the vocabulary of death, the content was examined under the headings of death concept, view of the world and the afterlife, mourning, praise, prayer and wishes in the Sufi language. Through these headings, the perception of death revealed in the death chronograms in the Divan of Nurî Osman from Chania, the issues of world, afterlife, heaven, mercy and intercession discussed in the context of death and the philosophy of creation were determined.

Nûrî Osman from Chania, historical poems, biography, elegy, death.