Kâbe Üzerine Bir Risale: Ta ̆rifnâme-i Kâbe
A TREATISE ON KAABA: TA’RİFNAME-İ KABE

The subject of this work is inspired from a manuscript on the Kaaba registered at İstanbul Research Institute Şevket Rado Manuscripts 372 that describes physical structure of the Kaaba, its parts, history of its construction, repair and its virtues, etc.. In the first part of this work, we gave brief information about the Kaaba; focused on the physical structure and construction history of it. In the continuation, we shortly touched upon the genres of Kaabanamah and Menâsik in Classical Turkish Literature. Afterwards, we focused on the place and images of Kaaba in classical Turkish literature. By giving the couplets from various centuries we have covered the Kaaba in the Divan poetry and its presence in various metaphors. In the second part of the work, after introducing the treatise Ta ̆rifnâme-i Kaaba, we gave the text that we transcribed. Although this treatise does not carry primarily literary elements, it has the characteristics of Kaabanamah and is a new source for the history of the Kaaba and a new link to the relevant literature chain. Therefore, we hope this work will be beneficial to the researchers who are interested in this subject.