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Ḥayretü’l-ʿuḳalā (Aḥmedī (d. 815/1412-13))

Author

Aḥmedī (d. 815/1412-13)

احمدي

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Tāc al-Dīn İbrāhīm b. Ḫıḍır Aḥmedī

تاج الدين ابراهيم بن خضر احمدي

Ahmedî, 1334?-1413 (authorised)

Tācüddı̄n İbrāhı̄m bin Ḫıżır, 1334?-1413 (variant)

Ahmedi, Taceddin, 1334?-1413 (variant)

Taceddin İbrahim ibn Hızr Ahmedi, 1334?-1413 (variant)

Tāc al-Dīn İbrāhīm bin Ḫiżir, 1334?-1413 (variant)

Tacettin İbrahim, 1334?-1413 (variant)

احمدي (variant)

Biographical notes

An Anatolian poet and man of letters from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century, Aḥmedī composed both in Old Anatolian Turkish and Persian. Although his date of birth and origins remain debatable, the strongest evidence points to his origins from the Germiyan (Turkey) region of western Anatolia. After furthering his education in Cairo studying under the religious scholar Akmal al-Dīn Bābartī in the late 14th century [1300-1399 CE], he returned to western Anatolia where he received the patronage of local rulers such as that of the Aydınids based in Ayasuluk and the Germiyanid ruler, Süleymān Shāh (r. 1367-1388) of Kütahya. He later entered Ottoman service and dedicated his literary works to Bayezid I's son, Süleymān Çelebi (Emīr Süleymān). Perhaps the most prolific Anatolian of his generation, Aḥmedī did much to advance the Islamic literary culture of Rūm, producing a variety of works in both Turkish and Persian, dealing with a range of poetic and religious themes.

Title

Ḥayretü’l-ʿuḳalā

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Notes

A non-extant ḳaṣīde attributed to Aḥmedī by Kātib Çelebi (d. 1067/1657).

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Studies

Kut, Günay. "Ahmedī." TDVİA. 2 1989: 165-167.

Köprülü, M. F.. "Ahmedī." İA. 1 1950: 216-218.

Çelebi, Kâtib and Muṣṭafā ibn ‘Abd Allāh Ḥājjī Khalīfa. Keşf-el-Zunun. Istanbul: Milli Eğitim Basımevi, 1971, 694.

Physical Description

Number of folios

n/a ff.

History

Date of copy

20th. century