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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi

Collection

Türkce Yazmalar

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311

Contents

Yūsuf va Zulaykhā (Darīr, active 14th century)

Author

Darīr, active 14th century

مسطفی ضرير بن یوسف بن عمر ارزرومی

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Musṭafá Ḍarīr b. Yūsuf b. ‘Umar Erzurūmī

Mustafa bin Yusuf bin Ömer

Darîr, active 14th century (authorised)

Darîr, 14th cent (variant)

Darîr, Mustafa, active 14th century (variant)

Erzurumlu Darîr, active 14th century (variant)

Kadı Darîr, active 14th century (variant)

Mustafa bin Yusuf bin Ömer, active 14th century (variant)

Biographical notes

A Turkish poet, author and translator who lived in the second half of the 14th century [1350-1399 CE]. Most of the information about his life comes from the prefaces written in the works he has authored and translated (especially ). He was apparently born blind (ḍarīr) in the Anatolian city of Erzurum (Turkey) where he studied. It was probably in his city of birth where he composed his version of the classic Yūsuf va Zulaykhā (يوسف و زليخا), which is important as an early example of old Anatolian Turkish. In 779 AH [1377 CE], he left for Egypt after some political instability arose in Erzurum (Turkey). He won the sympathy of the young Sultan al-Manṣūr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī, Sultan of Egypt, r. 1376–1382 and especially of the atabeg and future sultan Barqūq, Sultan of Egypt, 1340 or 1341-1399. In Egypt he begun the translation of the Sīrat al-Nabī (سيرة النبي) based on the version by Bakrī , Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh of the classic work by the same title of Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq, -approximately 768. This work begun to be prepared by order of al-Manṣūr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī, Sultan of Egypt, r. 1376–1382 but because of the removal of the Sultan it was presented in 790 AH [1388 CE] to the new ruler Barqūq, Sultan of Egypt, 1340 or 1341-1399. Musṭafá Ḍarīr b. Yūsuf b. ‘Umar Erzurūmī moved with his family to Alexandria (Egypt) before embarking back to Anatolia to settle for four years in Karaman. For unknown reasons he left the city and travelled to Aleppo (Syria) where he was in 796 AH [1393 CE] to present his work Futūḥ al-shām (فتوح الشام) to the amir of the city. It has been suggested that his work Yüz Hadis ve Yüz Hikâye was also composed in Aleppo (Syria) at the request of Emir Çolpan. All his works contain pieces of poetry that are believed to be of his own authorship. His date of death is unknown and there is no information about his life in Syria after 796 AH [1393 CE].

Title

Yūsuf va Zulaykhā

يوسف و زليخا

Notes

This work was recently discovered and it is only available in a single manuscript at the İstanbul Üniversitesi (). The work contains 2120 verses dealing with the story of Yūsuf as it appears in the Qur’ān.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Karahan, Leyla. Kıssa-i Yûsuf : (Yûsuf u Züleyhâ). Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1994. (inceleme, metin, dizin)

Studies

Erkan, Mustafa. "DARÎR." TDVIA. , [n.d.].

Karahan, Leyla. Erzurumlu Darir. İstanbul: Millı̂ Eğitim Bakanlığı, 1995.

İz, Fahir. "Ḍarīr." Encyclopaedia of Islam. , [n.d.].

Physical Description

Number of folios

85 ff.

History

Date of copy

20th. century