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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Atatürk Kitaplığı

Collection

Osman Ergin

Shelfmark

880

Contents

Work 3: Genc-nāme (رفيعي‏)

LOC subject headings

Turkish language To 1500

Masnavis

Islamic poetry, Turkish

Islamic ethics (Early works to 1800)

Author

رفيعي‏

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Refīʿī (d. after 811/1409)

Refiʻı̂, active 14th century-15th century (authorised)

Refiʻı̂, 14th/15th cent (variant)

رفيعي (variant)

Biographical notes

Hurufi poet. He was likely of Azari origin and from Shirvan. He probably knew Nesīmī in Aleppo or Baghdad and travelled through Anatolia to disseminate Hurufi teachings. He was instructed by Nesīmī to write his Beşāret-nāme. His tomb is in Preveza.

Title

Genc-nāme

ﻛﻨﺠﻨﺎﻣﻪ

Notes

A mes̱nevī of 144 to 169 couplets praising the Prophet and Faḍl Allāh Astarābadī. It discusses the importance of attaining moral perfection and gives a definition for it.

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

31b-36a ff.

Columns

2

Ruled lines

19

Bibliography

Editions

Ertaylan, İsmail Hikmet. Hurufî Edebiyatı Örnekleri I: Gencnâme-i Refiʿî. Istanbul: Ayaydın Matbaası, 1946. (Facsimile of a private manuscript belonging to İbrahim Olgun)

Refīʿī, Mevlānā. "Genc-nāme." In Dīvān-ı Nesīmī. Istanbul: 1260, 9-14.

Studies

Björkman, W.. "Refīʿī." EI2. VIII 1995: 480-481.

Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson. "A History of Ottoman Poetry." London: Luzac&Co, 1905, 336, 341, 344, 351, 369-380-336, 341, 344, 351, 369-380.

Kut, Günay. "Refîî." TDVİA. 34 2007: 526-527.

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National Library 383

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 2268

National Library 300

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi 567

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi 5290

Atatürk Kitaplığı 378

Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi 941

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 6784

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 77

Ankara Milli Kütüphane A 2711

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 35

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 3359

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 78

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Work 5: Dīvān (Turkish) (Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418)

LOC subject headings

Turkish language To 1500

Love poetry, Turkish

Ghazals, Turkish

Masnavis

Islamic poetry, Turkish

Sufi poetry, Turkish

Sufism (Early works to 1800)

Author

Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418

نسيمي

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Nesīmī (d. 820/1418 [?])

Seyyid İmādüddīn Nesīmī (d. 820/1417?)

ﺳﻴﺪ ﻋﻤﺎﺩﺍﻟﺪﻳﻦ نسيمي

Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (authorised)

Imadăddin Năsimi, approximately 1369-1418 (variant)

Imadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nasīmī, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nasīmī, ʻImād al-Dīn, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Năsimi, Imadăddin, approximately 1369-1418 (variant)

Nasimi, Imadeddin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nesimi, ca. 1369-ca. 1418 (variant)

Nesimi, d. 1404 or 5 (variant)

Nesimi, İmadeddin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nesimi, Seýit Umadutdin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Nesimi, Umadutdin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seĭid Imadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seĭit Ymadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seyyid Nesîmî, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Ymadeddin Nesimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Насими, Имадеддин, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

عماد الدين نسيمى (variant)

نسينى (variant)

نسيمي (variant)

نسيمي،, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

نسيمي،, حو. 1369-حو. 1418 (variant)

Sayyid ʻImād al-Dīn Nasīmī Tabrīzī, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

سيد عماد الدين نسيمى تبريزى (variant)

Nasīmī Tabrīzī, Sayyid ʻImād al-Dīn, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Tabrīzī, Sayyid ʻImād al-Dīn Nasīmī, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Seyyid İmadäddin Näsimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Näsimi, Seyyid İmadäddin, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 (variant)

Biographical notes

Nesīmī is an early Ottoman poet and mystic, famous for his Ḥurūfī worldview. He is believed to have come from Nesīm, near Baghdād. He was most likely of Turkoman origin, although his title of “Seyyid” also points to Arab blood. About 804 AH [1401 CE] he became a follower of Faḍl Allāh Ḥurūfī (d. 796/1394), whom he personally met, and eventually became his successor. After Faḍl Allāh’s death, he left Azerbaijan for Anatolia. He came to Bursa during the reign of Murād I (761-91/1360-89) and was not well received here. Ḥacı Bayram (d. 833/1430) refused to see him in Ankara. He eventually went to Aleppo, where he was flayed for his heretical views in 820 AH [1417 CE] (other dates are also given in the historical sources). Evliyā Çelebi (d. 1095/1684) mentions a lodge and a tomb for Nesīmī in this city. Nesīmī had Dīvāns in both Persian and Turkish, which he knew equally well, as well as possibly a Dīvān in Arabic which is no longer extant. His Turkish shows the characteristics of the Ādharī dialect. Nesīmī’s poetry focuses on Ḥurūfī teachings, the doctrine of the oneness of being, and the praise of the Twelve Imams. The latter aspect, in addition to his martyrdom, has led to the Alevi adoption of Nesīmī, who consider him as one of their seven great poets. Nesīmī also had an important historical role in the development of classical literature in Turkish, with his extensive use of complex images (maḍmūn).

Title

Dīvān (Turkish)

ديوان

Notes

Nesīmī’s poems were vastly popular, partly due to their dissemination by wandering dervishes. The latest critical edition of his Turkish Dīvān consists 3 mes̱nevīs, 457 ġazels, 315 quatrains (tuyuġ), and also 4 müstezāds, 1 murabbā, 3 tercīʿ-i bends and 4 individual couplets. He also used the pen name of “Ḥüseynī” in some poems.

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

38a-39b ff.

Columns

2

Ruled lines

19

Bibliography

Editions

Ayan, Hüseyin. Nesîmî – Hayatı, Edebî Kişiliği, Eserleri ve Türkçe Divanının Tenkidli Metni I-II. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 2002.

Burrill, Kathleen R.F.. The Quatrains of Nesimî – Fourteenth-Century Turkic Hurufi. Paris: Mouton, 1972. (with Annotated Translations of the Turkic and Persian Quatrains from Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa MS)

Kürkçüoğlu, Kemâl Edib. Seyyid Nesîmî Dîvânı’ndan Seçmeler. Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 1985.

Saygı, Saide. "Seyyid Nesimi Divanı." unpublished graduation thesis, Ankara University: 1964-66.

Studies

Alparslan, Ali. "Câvidân-nâme’nin Nesîmî’ye Tesiri." unpublished associate professorship dissertation, İstanbul University, 1967.

Ayan, Hüseyin. "Kul Nesîmî’ye Ait Olduğu Sanılan Şiirler." Edebiyat Fakültesi Araştırma Dergisi (EFAD). 6 1974: 21-33.

Babinger, Franz. "Nesīmī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. VIIILeiden: E.J. Brill, 1995: 8-8.

Bilgin, A. Azmi. "Nesīmī." TDVİA. 33, [n.d.]: 3-5.

Gahramanov, Jahangir. Nasimi Divanynyn Leksikasy. Baku: 1970.

Gibb, E.J.W.. History of Ottoman Poetry. London: Luzac & Company, 1900-09.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki. "Nesîmî." İslam Ansiklopedisi. IX, [n.d.]: 206-207.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki. Hurufîlîk Metinleri Kataloğu. Ankara: 1973.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki. Nesîmî, Usûlî, Rûhî. İstanbul: Kapı, 2014.

Hess, M.R.. "Zum Stammbaum Einiger Türkischer Nesîmî-Handschriften." Ar.Ott. XXI 2003: 245-257.

Kocatürk, Vasfi Mahir. Tekke Şiiri Antolojisi. Ankara: Buluş Kitabevi, 1955.

Kuluzade, Mehmet. "Nesimi." In Azerbaycan Edebiyatı Tarihi. Bakü: Azerbaycan SSR İlimler Akademisi Neşriyatı, 1960, 265-265.

Köksal, Fatih. "Seyyid Nesimî’nin Bilinmeyen Tuyuğları." TUBA. XXIV/1 2000: 187-197.

Köprülü, Fuat. "Nesimî’ye Dair." Hayat. I, no. 20 1927.

Ocak, Ahmet Yaşar. Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Marjinal Sûfîlik: Kalenderîler (XIV-XVII. Yüzyıllar). Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1992.

Olgun, İbrahim. "Seyyit Nesîmî Üzerine Notlar." TDAY Belleten. 1970: 47-68.

Olgun, İbrahim. "Nesîmî Üzerine Notlar." TDAY Belleten. 1971: 195-207.

Yöntem, Ali Canip. "Seyyid Nesîmî ve Tuyuğları." Güneş. , no. 7 1927.

Zülfe, Ömer. "Nesîmî’nin Tuyuğlarına Ek." Modern Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi. II/4 2005 .

Ünver, Mustafa. Hurûfîlik ve Kuran: Nesîmî Örneği. Ankara: 2003.

Üzüm, İlyas. "Nesīmī–Görüşleri." TDVİA. 33, [n.d.]: 5-6.

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 297

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 310

National Library 383

National Library 382

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 2268

National Library 300

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi 567

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi 5290

Atatürk Kitaplığı 378

Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi 941

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 6784

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 77

Ankara Milli Kütüphane A 2711

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 35

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 3359

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 78

National Library 300c

Physical Description

Number of folios

58 ff.

Binding

Leather binding, covered with green paper.

History

Date of copy

20th. century