İbnülemin Mahmud Kemal İnal, as the most productive member of the Âsâr-ı Müfîde Library committee, which was established to prepare editions of rare and valuable manuscripts, undertook the publication of the divans of three distinguished figures of divan poetry. The work in your hands consists of the introductions written by İbnülemin Mahmud Kemal İnal for the Divans of Sheikh ul-Islam Yahya Efendi, Leskofçalı Gâlib, and Hersekli Ârif Hikmet, which were published as part of the Âsâr-ı Müfîde Library Publications. In the introductions he wrote while preparing these divans for publication, İbnülemin acted with a motive of affection for both his predecessors and his successors. He stated that examining the lives and works of our predecessors, who are "spiritual ancestors" for the entire nation, means reviving them, and emphasized that forgetting them cannot be reconciled with love for one's country and nation. According to İbnülemin, because humanity is sustained by knowledge, we should exalt scholarship and own our past by reading the works of our spiritual ancestors.