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France

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Paris

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Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Manuscrits Turcs

Shelfmark

Ancient fons turc 314

Contents

Ḫurşīdnāme (Şeyhoğlu Mustafa, approximately 1341-)

Author

Şeyhoğlu Mustafa, approximately 1341-

شيخ اوغلي مصطفى

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Şeyḫoğlu Muṣṭafā

Şeyḫzāde

Şeyhoğlu Mustafa, approximately 1341- (authorised)

Cemâlî-i Germiyânî Şeyhoğlu, approximately 1341- (variant)

Mustafa, Şeyhoğlu, approximately 1341- (variant)

Ṣadr al-Dīn Muṣṭafá, approximately 1341- (variant)

Sadrüʼd-dīn Şeyhoğlu, approximately 1341- (variant)

Şayh-oğlu, Ṣadr al-Dīn Muṣṭafá, approximately 1341- (variant)

Şeyh-oğlu, approximately 1341- (variant)

Şeyhoğlu Mustafa, b. ca. 1341 (variant)

شيخ اوغلو مصطفى (variant)

Biographical notes

Şeyḫoğlu Muṣṭafā was a poet, courtier, and bureaucrat at the Germiyanid and Ottoman courts. He served as financial minister (defterdār) and head of the chancery (nişāncı) and at the Germiyanid court under the reigns of Meḥmed Bey (r. 1340-1361)محمد بك) and Süleymān Şāh (r. 1361-1381), before transferring to the Ottoman court under Bayezid I with the absorption of the Germiyanid principality by the Ottomans. We know nothing of his life after 1401 [1401 CE] except that he appears to have joined the court of the Ottoman prince Emir Süleymān following the fall and death of Bayezid I at Timur's hands. His contemporary and rival, the poet Aḥmedī, considered his verse inferior in style. The early sixteenth-century [1600-1699 CE] Ottoman biographer of poets Sehī Bey confused Şeyḫoğlu with the poet Şeyhī’s nephew Cemālī, a mistake that has continued to be repeated by both European and Turkish scholars. In some of his works Şeyḫoğlu Muṣṭafā uses the pen name İbn Şeyhī. Zeynep Korkmaz argues that Ṣadreddīn Şeyhoğlu, the author of a Turkish Marzubānnāme, is the same individual as Şeyḫoğlu Muṣṭafā.

Title

Ḫurşīdnāme

چرشيدنامه

Notes

The Ḫurşīdnāme is a mathnawī romance of close to 7700 couplets and with 22 ghazals. Şeyhoğlu Mustafa, completed in 789 AH [1387 CE], and presented it to Bayezid I, Sultan of the Turks, approximately 1360-1403, although he originally began the work for Süleymān Şāh (r. 1361-1381), just prior to the death of the defunct Germiyanid ruler. Şeyhoğlu Mustafa presents us with an original story which draws heavily on the motifs and themes found in the Shāhnāmah and the general Persian literary tradition. The plot revolves around the love story of Ḫurşīd, the daughter of the shah of Iran, Siyāvūş, and Feraḥşād, the son of the ruler of the Maghrib (literally “the West” but, if following Niẓāmī’s use, refers to the Arab lands including North Africa), both of whom fall in love before having set eyes on one another. Feraḥşād sets out on a heroic quest in order to overcome the obstacles presented by Ḫurşīd’s rivals and win Ḫurşīd’s hand in marriage. The work which exists in different recensions survives in ten known manuscripts.

Composed in the Germiyanid realm, western-central Anatolia.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Şeyhoğlu, Mustafa. Hurşîd-nâme (Hurşîd ü Ferahşâd). İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük-Konu Dizini. Edited by Ayan, Hüseyin. Erzurum: Atatürk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Yayınları, 1979.

Studies

Akün, Ömer Faruk. "Şeyhoğlu, Şayḫoġlu, Ṣadr al-Dīn Muṣṭafā (1340-?)." İA. 11, [n.d.]: 481-485.

Avcı, İsmail. "Şeyhoğlu Mustafa: Hurşîd-nâme (Hurşîd ü Ferahşâd)." Ankara Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi. 39 2009: 101-111.

Avcı, İsmail. "Şeyhoğlu Mustafa: Hurşîd-nâme (Hurşîd ü Ferahşâd)." Ankara Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi. 39 2009: 101-111.

Burrill, Kathleen. "Sheykh-oghlu, Ṣadr al-Dīn Muṣṭafā." Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition. 9 1999: 418-419.

Dankoff, Robert. "The Lyric in the Romance: The Use of Ghazals in Persian and Turkish Masnavīs." Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 43, no. 1 1984: 9-25.

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 550

Bibliothèque Nationale de France Ancient fons turc 315

Bibliothèque Nationale de France Ancient fons turc 355

University of Leiden Library 26270

University of Leiden Library 14466

Berlin Staatsbibliothek A S 16

Munich Library 173

Physical Description

Number of folios

306 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 16.5cm, height 25.5cm

Hand

Ḥusayn ibn Dāʼūd, fl. 1478, حسین بن داود

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

15th. century