Background
He was born in Bayburt in modern-day Turkey.
He was born in Bayburt in modern-day Turkey.
He wrote sufi poems. He also started writing Stories of Prophets (Kisas-ul Enbiya) in a poetical form. However, he lost the only copy of this book during World War I. Other poems of İrşadi Baba are well-preserved and published in the Turkish language. He was more of a folkloric poet and he rarely referred to the scripture and tradition.
Some of the major themes he was preoccupied were divine love (Ilah-i Ask), reality (Hakikat) and asceticism (Zuhd).
