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Turkey

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Konya

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İzzet Koyunoğlu Kütüphanesi

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14671

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Feraḥ-nāme (Kemāloġlı İsmāʿīl (d. after 789/1387))

Author

Kemāloġlı İsmāʿīl (d. after 789/1387)

ﻛﻣﺎﻝﺍﻭﻏﻠﻲ ﺍﺳﻣﺎﻋﻴل

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Kemaloğlu

Kemāloġlı İsmāʿīl (d. after 789/1387) (authorised)

ﻛﻣﺎﻝﺍﻭﻏﻠﻲ ﺍﺳﻣﺎﻋﻴل (variant)

Biographical notes

Author of the Feraḥ-nāme, which he dedicated to Mīr Ġāzī, مير غازي, the Mamluk ruler in Damascus. Kemāloġlı lived in Tripoli while writing this work. He was proficient in Arabic and Persian and probably received madrasa education. The praise of the four caliphs in his work indicates that he was a Sunni.

Title

Feraḥ-nāme

ﻓﺭﺣﻨﺎﻣﻪ

Notes

A mes̱nevī on the supernatural adventures of a person in the company of caliph ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān and a North African prince who travel together in search of the jugs (ḳumḳuma) in which Prophet Solomon trapped the giants who betrayed him. It is the oldest extant Turkish work on the subject, although Kemāloġlı points to the existence of an older work which did not survive. In the Feraḥ-nāme, Kemāloġlı says that he translated the work from a prose work in Arabic and made his own additions. He also relied on a Persian version. Although Kemāloġlı describes his work to consist of 3030 couplets, a comparative study of the manuscripts yields a total of 3125 couplets. The Feraḥ-nāme is written in the form of 13 gatherings (meclis). At the end of each gathering, Kemāloġlı gives the moral of the story. The work thus has the character of a book of counsels. The Feraḥ-nāme also includes ghazals and other pieces of poetry.

Date of completion: Ramadan 789 [1387 CE] Place of completion: Tripoli

Mīr Ġāzī, Mamluk ruler in Damascus

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Çalışkanman, Tijen. "Kemaloğlu İsmail: Ferahnâme, biyografi, devir ve tür araştırması, 35 varağın neşri." Master’s thesis, İzmir: Ege Üniversitesi, 1996.

Özbostancı, Kenan. "Kemaloglı: Ferah-name." Master’s thesis, Istanbul: Marmara Üniversitesi, 1991.

Studies

Kocatürk, Vasfi Mahir. In Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi. Ankara: Edebiyat Yayınevi, 1964, 131-133.

Köprülü, Mehmed Fuad. In Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi. Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, 1981, 342-342. (First edition: Istanbul: Milli Matbaa, 1926)

Şenödeyici, Özer. "Alevî-Bektaşî Eskatolojisi Açısından Ferişteoğlu’nun Âhiretnâme’si." Ankara: Gazi Üniversitesi Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Velî Araştırma Merkezi, 2007: 263-294.

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Milli Kütüphane 18349

Physical Description

Number of folios

103 ff.

Columns

2

Ruled lines

14

History

Date of copy

possibly 15th. century