[1] Thereafter, scholarship identified a number of works by Şeyyad, and suggested 'his importance as a predecessor of Yūnus Emre [...] and his place in the early experimental period of Ottoman literature'.
[1] Şeyyad also composed literary poetry, including religious pieces contemplating death and avoiding worldly entrapments, work in the naʿt genre, amatory verse, and a naẓīre responding to one of Rūmī's ghazals.
[1] According to Burrill, 'the format, while adhering in general to the Persian mathnawī tradition, replaces interspersed ghazels with five nükte or moral commentaries.
The Turkish (largely free of Arab- or Persianisms) requires frequent prosodic licence to achieve the chosen (remel) metre, and the rhyme structure lacks polish'.
[1] Şeyyad also composed the 76-line methnewī called Hādhā dāsitān-i̊ Sulṭān Mahmūd ('This is the tale of Sultan Maḥmūd'), referring to Mahmud of Ghazni.