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Country

Turkey

City

Ankara

Institution

Ankara Milli Kütüphane

Collection

Ankara Adnan Ötüken İl Halk Kütüphanesi

Shelfmark

817

Contents

Falaknāmah (Gülşehrı̂ active 13th century-14th century)

Author

Gülşehrı̂ active 13th century-14th century

كلشهري

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Gülşehrī (fl. 1301-1317)

الكلشهرى

Gülşehrı̂, active 13th century-14th century (authorised)

Gülschehrī, active 13th century-14th century (variant)

Gülşehrı̂, 13th/14th cent (variant)

Gülšehrī, Šeyḫ Aḥmed, active 13th century-14th century (variant)

Güls̲h̲ehrī, active 13th century-14th century (variant)

Šeyḫ Aḥmed Gülšehrī, active 13th century-14th century (variant)

Biographical notes

Gülşehrī's identity has been much disputed. The pen name Gülşehrī indicates that he was a poet from the northwestern Cappadocian town of Gülşehir (Zoropassos, Arapsun), which lay in the Selçuk province of Kırşehir in between the towns of Hacıbektaş to the north and Nevşehir to the south. According to Köprülü, based on İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzesi, no. 1360, he was named eş-Şeyḫ Aḥmed el-Gülşehrī(الشيخ احمد الكلشهري). Some Turkish scholars speculate that he was sent to the region of Kırşehir at the end of the thirteenth century [1200-1299 CE] as a disciple of Sulṭān Walad (سلطان ولد), although there is no firm evidence to support this supposition. There have also been attempts to connect him to the Mawlawī shaykh by the name of Süleyman. Internal evidence from his work indicates that he was Sufi shaykh and zāwiya leader from with strong akhī ties.

Title

Falaknāmah

فلكنامه

Notes

Completed in 701 AH [1301 CE] and dedicated to Ghāzān Khān(غازان خان), the Persian Falaknāmah is Gülşehrī's first known work. It presents a Sufi interpretation to the Islamic philosophical topic of al-mabdaʾ wa’l-maʿād (المبداء والمعاد) (the origin of this world and its destination). The work exists in a unique manuscript copied in 842 AH [1438 CE]. The work place of composition is Gülşehir, town in north-western Cappadocia.

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

Kocatürk, Saadettin. Gülşehri ve Felek-nāme (İnceleme ve Metin). Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Yayınları, 1984.

Studies

Emre, Ahmet Cevat. "“Öndördüncü Asır Yazmalarından Nümuneler: Gülşehri’nin Feleknamesinden.”." Türk Dili-Belleten 2nd series. 7-8 1941: 165-180.

Sayılı, Aydın. "Gülşehrî’nin ‘Leylek ile Bülbül Hikâyesi’ Adlı Manzumesi." In Necati Lugal Armağanı. Ankara: TTK, 1968, 537-554.

Physical Description

Number of folios

143 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

13

History

Date of copy

NaNth. century