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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Atatürk Kitaplığı

Collection

Muallim Cevdet

Shelfmark

144

Contents

Work 4: Ḥikāyet-i Ebū Derdā (Aḳsarāylı ʿĪsā (fl. possibly 14th and 15th centuries))

LOC subject headings

Turkish language To 1500

Masnavis

Islamic poetry, Turkish

Muslim saints (Biography)

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Author

Aḳsarāylı ʿĪsā (fl. possibly 14th and 15th centuries)

ﺁﻗﺴﺮﺍﻳﻠﻲ ﻋﻴﺴﻰ

Show other names

Aḳsarāylı ʿīsā (authorised)

اكسارايلي عيسى (variant)

Biographical notes

Author of the Ḥikāyet-i Ebū Derdā and the Dāstān-ı İsmāʿīl. He was a Mavlavī and praised Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī and Sulṭān Valad in his poetry. He was the disciple of a Mavlavī shaykh named Süleymān, who may have been Süleymān Türkmānī, one of Sulṭān Valad’s successors.

Title

Ḥikāyet-i Ebū Derdā

ﺣﻜﺎﻳﺖﹺ ﺍﺑﻮ ﺩﺭﺪﺍ

Notes

A mes̱nevī of 90 couplets on the spiritual levels of Abu’l- Dardāʾ al-Anşārī al-Khazrajī and his wife, who are generally considered among the Companions (Ṣaḥāba). Aḳsarāylı ʿĪsā’s mes̱nevī is one of the three versions of the story in Turkish. One of these versions is part of the Menāḳıb-ı Mevlānā written by Loḳmānī Dede in 910 AH [1504 CE]. The third version is the story attributed to Kirdeci ʿAlī. According to the story, Abu’l- Dardāʾ and his wife lived in great poverty and had no wish for wealth. By miracle, the Prophet increased the size of their house and their source of food, allowing them to give a feast to the Companions. He then shrank their house to its original size and turned a marble column in their house into a source of milk and honey.

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

77a-78b ff.

Columns

2

Ruled lines

29

Bibliography

Editions

Büyükkarcı-Yılmaz, Fatma. "İki Şair Bir Eser: Ebu’d-Derdâ Hikâyesi." Journal of Turkish Studies: Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları. I, no. 33 2009: 127-152.

Studies

Ersoylu, Halil. "Ḥikāyet-i Ebū Derdā ve Ḫatun." İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi. , no. XXVIII 1998: 289-340.

Physical Description

Seal

Waqf record of es-Seyyid Dervīş Feyżullah b. ʿAlī, السيد درويش فيض الله ابن علي on 17b ff. and various pages; Seal of Ḥabībüddīn? Yūsuf, حبيب الدين يوسف on 1a ff..

History

Date of copy

possibly 18th. century