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Country

Turkey

City

Ankara

Institution

Ankara Milli Kütüphane

Collection

Milli Kütüphane Yazmalar Koleksiyonu

Shelfmark

206

Contents

Work 2: Dīvān (Saruhanlı Gü lş enî active 15th century)

LOC subject headings

Love poetry, Turkish

Author

Saruhanlı Gü lş enî active 15th century

كلشن ساروحاني

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Gülşenī-i Saruḫānī (d. after 888/1483-84)

Saruhanlı Gülşenî, active 15th century (authorised)

Gülşenî, Saruhanlı, active 15th century (variant)

Saruhanlı Gülşenî, 15th cent (variant)

Saruhanlı, Gülşenî, active 15th century (variant)

Biographical notes

Little is known of Gülşenī-i Saruḫānī’s life. Laṭīfī (d. 990/1582-83) states that he came to Anatolia during the reign of Meḥmed II. Although he is referred to as “Saruḫanlı” in biographical sources, none of his works mention the place name Saruḫān. According to Ebrahim Ferzan, he is actually from Şirvān, but some copyists mistook the name Şirvānī as Saruḫānī, thus spreading the name Saruḫānī. Two facts strengthen this claim: firstly, that he dedicated some of his poems to people who lived near Şirvānī and secondly, that he had profound knowledge of the Persian language as observable in his works, his Persian Dīvān and the Rāz-nāme . Therefore it can be deduced that Gülşenī most probably came to Manisa after spending his early years in Şirvān, and was patronized by Şehzāde Meḥmed, who was known for his patronage at the time. Some sources often confuse Gülşenī-i Saruḫānī with İbrāhim Gülşenī (d. 940/1533-34) who was the founder of Gülşenīyye- Ḫalvetiyye order.

Title

Dīvān

ﺩﻳﻮﺍﻥ

Notes

No reference is made to Gülşenī-i Saruḫānī’s Turkish Dīvān in the sources. The only manuscript of the Dīvān is located in National Library of Turkey.

Main language of text

Turkish

Columns

2

Ruled lines

11

Bibliography

Editions

Gülşenî-i, Sarûhânî. Râz-nâme=Sırlar kitabı. Edited by Yıldırımer, Mestan. İstanbul: Büyüyenay Yayınları, 2012.

Studies

Aksoy, Hasan. "Gülşenî-i Saruhânî." TDVİA. 14 1996: 256-256.

Kulat, Özlem. "Gülşeni Divanı ve Tahlili." Unpublished dissertation, Elazığ: Fırat Üniversitesi, 2010.

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Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi 5820

History

Date of copy

20th. century