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Country

Turkey

Collection

Vasfi Mahir Kocatürk Special Collection

Contents

Vefātü’n-nebī (ʿĀrif (d. After 842/1438))

Author

ʿĀrif (d. After 842/1438)

عارف

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ʿĀrif (authorised)

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Biographical notes

Nothing is known about ʿĀrif’s life except that his was the author of six mathnawis and some poems and is one of the earliest authors of a ḫamse (a collection of five mathnawis)) in Turkish literature after Aḥmedī (d. 815/1412-13) and Ḳayġusuz Abdāl (d. 848/1444 ?). He is also the earliest author of a Mevlid (A poem on the birth of the Prophet) after Aḥmedī (d. 815/1412-13) and Süleymān Çelebi (d. 825/1422) .

Title

Vefātü’n-nebī

وفات النبى

Notes

The mathnawi accomplished in 5th Rebīʿü’l-āḫir 842 [1438 CE], consisting of 1402 couplets is about the sickness and the death of the prophet Muhammad and how these incidents affected his companions. At the end of the Vefātü’n-nebī, ʿĀrif gives the total number of the couplets contained in his five mathnawis, consisting of 4000 in total.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Studies

Gülsoy, Nebahat. "Arif: Miraç-name, vefat, isimsiz bir mesnevi (giriş-transkripsiyonlu metin-sözlük)." unpublished MA thesis, Istanbul: Marmara University, 1993.

Kocatürk, Vasfi Mahir. In Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi. Ankara: Edebiyat Yayınevi, 1964, 261-264. (<p>introduces the content and includes parts from the work</p>)

Tunç, Semra. "Ârif, Hayatı, Edebî Kişiliği ve Eserlerinin Tenkidli Metni I. C. İnceleme-II. C. Metin." unpublished PHD thesis, Konya: Selçuk University, 1996.

Tunç, Semra. "Ârif ve II. Murâd Döneminde Yazılmış Bir Hamse." Selçuklu Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. , no. 12 2002: 155-168.

Çelebioğlu, Amil. Türk Mesnevî Edebiyatı: 15 yy. kadar (Sultan II. Murad Devri) (824-855/1421-1451). Istanbul Kitabevi, 1999.

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 355

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History

Date of copy

possibly 16th. century