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Egypt

City

Cairo

Institution

National Library

Collection

Turkish Manuscripts

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82

Contents

Ḫalīl-nāme (ʿAbdu’l-vāsiʿ (d. after 817/1414))

Author

ʿAbdu’l-vāsiʿ (d. after 817/1414)

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ʿAbdu’l-vāsiʿ Çelebi

Ḳaḍıoġlı

Abdülvasi Çelebi

ﻋﺒﺪﺍﻟﻮﺍﺳﻊ ﭼﻠﺒﻲ

ﻗﺎﺿﻲﺍﻭﻏﻟﻲ

Abdülvasi Çelebi, active 1414 (authorised)

Abdülvasi Çelebi, fl. 1414 (variant)

Çelebi, Abdülvasi, active 1414 (variant)

Biographical notes

Author of the Ḫalīl-nāme, ʿAbdu’l-vāsiʿ lived during the reign of Meḥmed I and was under the patronage of one of his viziers, Bayezid Paşa. He may have been the son of a qadi. The title of “Çelebi” does not figure in his work.

Title

Ḫalīl-nāme

ﺧﻠﻴﻠﻨﺎﻣﻪ

Notes

A narrative of the life of Prophet Abraham from his birth to his death. The work incudes a section of 194 couplets on the Battle of Çamurlu between Meḥmed I and his brother Mūsā. It also contains poems in ġazel and ḳaṣīde form. The Ḫalīl-nāme ends with a section named the Miʿrāc-nāme-i Seyyidü’l-beşer, consisting of 567 couplets in the same meter. It narrates the ascension of Prophet Muḥammad. Although some scholars have considered this section as a separate work, the narrative on Abraham's descendants immediately preceeding it as well as its formal qualities do not support this assertion.

817 AH [1414 CE]

Meḥmed I

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Çelebi, Abdülvasi. Halilname. Edited by Güldaş, Ayhan. Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı, 1996.

Studies

Abik, A. Deniz. "İki Yeni Nüshası Sebebiyle Halilname ve Müellifi Abdülvasi Üzerine." Türkoloji Dergisi. 1, no. 12 1997: 139-173.

Akar, Metin. Türk Edebiyatında Manzum Miracnameler. Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 1987.

Gönül, Alpay. "Abdülvasi Çelebi’nin Eseri ve Nüshaları." Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı (Belleten). , no. 302 1969: 201-226.

Karahan, Abdülkadir. In Eski Türk Edebiyatı İncelemeleri. İstanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Matbaası, 1980, 233-240.

Kastritsis, Dimitris J.. The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of: 1402-1413. Edited by Faroqhi, Suraiya and Halil İnalcık. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007. (Includes a translation of the section on the Battle of Çamurlu)

Kocatürk, Vasfi Mahir. In Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi: Başlangıçtan Bugüne Kadar Türk Edebiyatının Tarihi, Tahlili ve Tenkidi. Ankara: Edebiyat Yayınevi, 1970, 202-209.

Kut, Günay. "Abdülvâsi Çelebi." TDVİA. 1 1988: 283-284.

Uzun, Mustafa. "Mi’râciyye." TDVİA. 30 2005: 135-140.

Show filiations

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 2887

Atatürk Kitaplığı 214

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 6205

İzzet Koyunoğlu Kütüphanesi 11826

Atatürk Kitaplığı 346

Ankara Milli Kütüphane 17184

Physical Description

Number of folios

136 ff.

Columns

2

Ruled lines

12

History

Date of copy

15th. century