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City

Ankara

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Ankara Milli Kütüphane

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Milli Kütüphane Yazmalar Koleksiyonu

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A 1931

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Work 1: şi'r ve fevā’id (Yūnus Emre (d. 1320))

Author

Yūnus Emre (d. 1320)

يونس امره

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Yunus Emre, -1320? (authorised)

Эмре, Юунус, -1320? (variant)

Юунус Эмре, -1320? (variant)

امره, يونس, -1320? (variant)

يونس أمره, -1320? (variant)

Ėmra, I︠U︡nus, -1320? (variant)

Ėmre, I︠U︡nus, -1320? (variant)

Ėmre, I︠U︡unus, -1320? (variant)

Emre, Jonuz, -1320? (variant)

Emre, Yunus, -1320? (variant)

Imră, I̐unus, -1320? (variant)

I︠U︡nus Ėmra, -1320? (variant)

I︠U︡nus Ėmre, -1320? (variant)

I̐unus Imră, -1320? (variant)

I︠U︡unus Ėmre, -1320? (variant)

Jonuz Emre, -1320? (variant)

Younous Emré, -1320? (variant)

Yunus Emre, d. 1320? (variant)

Biographical notes

Turkish mystic poet of the second half of the 13th century [1200-1299 CE] and the first quarter of the 14th century [1300-1399 CE] , who was extremely influential in the dissemination of Sufi teachings in Anatolia and the formation of tekke poetry, in addition to his leading role in the use of ‘arūḍ meter in Old Anatolian Turkish. Information on Yūnus's life is scarce and relies heavily on the references in his poems as well as legendary tales. His dates of birth and death have been subject to various debates, which were largely concluded by a record published by Adnan Erzi ( (Erzi_1950, pp. 85-89). Taken from a mecmū‘a at Beyazıt Library (Beyazıt Library 7912, , 38v). This record indicates that Yūnus lived for 82 years and died in 720 AH [1320-1321 CE] This puts his date of birth in the year of 638 AH [1240-1241 CE]. According to the general opinion, Yūnus was born in an area nearby the Sakarya river and lived in the Ṭapduḳ Emre convent located at Emrem Sultan near Nallıhan. He donated his land in Sarıköy to the convent. In some of his poems Yūnus Emre mentions that he lived to an old age. Certain of his poems indicate that Yūnus had children. In a document dated 924 AH [1518 CE] in Konya Registers No. 871 of the Ottoman Archives, reference is made to Yūnus's son İsmā‘īl and to the fact that Yūnus Emre bought a land named Ammā Yerce from Karamanoğlu İbrahim Bey. Tough his references to being ümmī in his poems led popular legend to consider him as illiterate, it is now well accepted that Yūnus was fairly educated. Gölpınarlı ( (Golpinarli_1961, pp. 100-101)) draws close parallels between some of his poems and those of Saʻdī and Mevlānā Celāleddīn Rūmī, concluding that Yūnus knew enough Persian to do translations. The precise nature of his education is not known. References in his poems indicate that Yūnus was a disciple of Ṭapduḳ Emre , who was in turn the disciple of Ṣarı Ṣaltuḳ. In addition to these two masters, Yūnus mentions Mevlānā Celāleddīn Rūmī in his poems, for whom he has great veneration. He is critical of the dervish Geyikli Baba (14th cent.). The lack of references to Ḥacı Bekṭāş Velī indicate that, contrary to the passages in Bektashi sources, Yūnus Emre was not directly related to Ḥacı Bekṭāş. We know from his poem that Yūnus Emre travelled extensively. The places mentioned in his poems include Kayseri, Sivas, Maraş, “upper lands” (Azerbaijan), Damascus, Shiraz, Baghdad, Tabriz and Nakhchivan. References in his poems suggest that he did not go on pilgrimage. There are graves attributed to Yūnus in various places in Anatolia as well as in Azerbaijan. Scholars agree on the authenticity of the grave in Sarıköy, near Sivrihisar. This grave was moved in 1946 [1946 CE] in the building of the railway between Ankara and Eskişehir and was subsequently transferred to its own newly built musoleum in 1970 [1970 CE]. Faruk K. Timurtaş was the first scholar to indicate that Yūnus Emre and ‘Āşıḳ Yūnus were two separate poets. ( (Timurtaş, Faruk, ed. Yunus Emre Dîvânı. Ankara: Başbakanlık Basımevi, 1986., pp. 19)). The poet ‘Āşıḳ Yūnus lived in Bursa and died in the beginning of the 15th century [1400-1499 CE]. The fact that Yūnus Emre used adjectives such as “ ‘āşıḳ, miskīn, dervīş” to refer to himself resulted in the mixing of the poems attributed to the two poets. This is visible in a majority of the manuscripts.

Title

şi'r ve fevā’id

Notes

Main language of text

Turkish

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Work 2: Eş‘ār (Eşrefoġlı Rūmī)

Author

Eşrefoġlı Rūmī

اشرف اوغلي رومي

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Eşref-zāde

اشرفزاده

‘Abdullāh b. Aḥmed Eşref

عبدالله ابن احمد اشرف

Eşrefoğlu Rumî, -1469 (authorised)

Abdullah Rumî, Eşrefoğlu, -1469 (variant)

Eşref-i İzniki, -1469 (variant)

Eşref-i Rumi, -1469 (variant)

Eşrefoğlu Abdullah Rumî, -1469 (variant)

Eşrefoğlu Rumî, d. 1469 (variant)

Eşrefzade Abdullah-ı Rûmî, -1469 (variant)

İznikli Eşrefoğlu Rûmî, -1469 (variant)

Piri Sani, -1469 (variant)

Rumî, Eşrefoğlu, -1469 (variant)

اشرف اوغلى رومي (variant)

اشرفاوغلى عبدالله الرومى (variant)

Title

Eş‘ār

Notes

Main language of text

Turkish

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Work 3: Poetry (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

Poetry

Notes

Main language of text

Turkish

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.

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

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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 .

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Work 4: İlāhiyyāt (Eşrefoġlı Rūmī)

Author

Eşrefoġlı Rūmī

اشرف اوغلي رومي

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Eşref-zāde

اشرفزاده

‘Abdullāh b. Aḥmed Eşref

عبدالله ابن احمد اشرف

Eşrefoğlu Rumî, -1469 (authorised)

Abdullah Rumî, Eşrefoğlu, -1469 (variant)

Eşref-i İzniki, -1469 (variant)

Eşref-i Rumi, -1469 (variant)

Eşrefoğlu Abdullah Rumî, -1469 (variant)

Eşrefoğlu Rumî, d. 1469 (variant)

Eşrefzade Abdullah-ı Rûmî, -1469 (variant)

İznikli Eşrefoğlu Rûmî, -1469 (variant)

Piri Sani, -1469 (variant)

Rumî, Eşrefoğlu, -1469 (variant)

اشرف اوغلى رومي (variant)

اشرفاوغلى عبدالله الرومى (variant)

Title

İlāhiyyāt

Notes

Main language of text

Turkish

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History

Date of copy

20th. century