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Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

Collection

Ali Nihat Tarlan

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58

Contents

Work 1: Dīvān (Naḳḳāş Ṣafī (d. after 840/1437))

LOC subject headings

Ghazals, Turkish

Love poetry, Turkish

Laudatory poetry, Turkish

Author

Naḳḳāş Ṣafī (d. after 840/1437)

ﻧﻘّﺎﺶ صفي

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Naḳḳāş Ṣafī, d. after 840/1437 (authorised)

ﻧﻘّﺎﺶ صفي (variant)

Biographical notes

Naḳḳāş Ṣafī was a court poet from Bursa, who lived during the reigns of Meḥmed I, and Murād II. He probably came to know Murād II during the sultan’s time in Bursa. While a companion to Murād II, Naḳḳāş Ṣafī was falsely accused and thrown in prison. He obtained the help of military judge Veliyyüddīn b. İlyās, the father of Aḥmed Paşa (d. 902/1496-97). Soon after being released from prison, he died in Edirne, where he was buried. The information on Naḳḳāş Ṣafī figuring in the bibliographical dictionaries is corraborated by references in his poetry. Although Ṣafī wrote laudatory poetry for a high number of officials, he had difficulty finding patronage, as evidenced by one of his poems. Despite the fact that Ṣafī was praised more for his miniature paintings than for his literary talent, he was a popular poet up to the seventeenth century [1600-1699 CE]. Up to 8 of his poems were considered as zemīn, to which most 15th [1400-1499 CE] and 16th century [1500-1599 CE] poets wrote naẓīres.

Title

Dīvān

poetry

ﺩﻳﻮﺍﻥ

Notes

The only extant copy of Naḳḳāş Ṣafī’s Dīvān is not in classic dīvān order, suggesting that he either did not have the time to complete it, or that it was assembled by someone else. The Dīvān includes laudatory poetry for a high number of government officials and important people of his time. Ṣafī made a special effort to use Turkish words in his rhymes.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Edirneli Nazmî, . Mecma‘u’n-Neẓā’ir. Edited by Köksal, M. Fatih. Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 2012, 353-4 (naẓīre), 399-400 (n.), 408-9 (n.), 662 (n.), 865 (zemīn), 1360 (z.), 1740-1(z.), 2091-2(z.), 2675-6 (n.), 2702 (z.), 2736-7(z.), 2784-5 (n.).

Erünsal, İsmail E.. "II. Murad Devri Şâirlerinden Nakkaş Safî ve Dîvânı." Osmanlı Araştırmaları: The Journal of Ottoman Studies. 34 2009: 105-118.

Köprülü, M. Fuad. Eski Şairlerimiz, Divan Edebiyatı Antolojisi. İstanbul: Muallim Ahmet Halit Kitaphanesi, 1934, 120-1. [4 ġazels].

Timurtaş, Faruk Kadri. Eski Türkiye Türkçesi, XV. Yüzyıl. Istanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi, 1977, 149-167. (edition of Ṣafī’s poems in TK_Bay_5782 )

Ömer b. Mezîd, and Mustafa Canpolat. Mecmūaʿtü’n-neẓāʾir. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1982, 59, 120, 177, 183, 196, 219, 228. (edition of Ṣafī’s poems in UK_UkLSOA_ms_27689 )

Ünver, İsmail. "Nakkaş Safî." In Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Sempozyumu: Mustafa Canpolat Armağanı. Ölmez, Mehmet and Aysu Ata, ed. Ankara: Sanat Kitabevi, 2003, 295-308. (4 ġazels, from TK_Bay_5782 and TK_TKSM_Bag_406 )

Studies

Köprülü, M. Fuad. Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi. Edited by Köprülü, Orhan F. and Nermin Pekin. Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, 1981, 364-265.

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Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi 406

The Personal Library of Fuad Köprülü

National Library H.O. 142

Work 2: 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.

Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki. Nesîmî, Usûlî, Rûhî. İstanbul: Kapı, 2014.

Hess, M.R.. "Zum Stammbaum Einiger Türkischer Nesîmî-Handschriften." Ar.Ott. XXI 2003: 245-257.

Kocatürk, Vasfi Mahir. Tekke Şiiri Antolojisi. Ankara: Buluş Kitabevi, 1955.

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

Köksal, Fatih. "Seyyid Nesimî’nin Bilinmeyen Tuyuğları." TUBA. XXIV/1 2000: 187-197.

Köprülü, Fuat. "Nesimî’ye Dair." Hayat. I, no. 20 1927.

Ocak, Ahmet Yaşar. Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Marjinal Sûfîlik: Kalenderîler (XIV-XVII. Yüzyıllar). Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1992.

Olgun, İbrahim. "Seyyit Nesîmî Üzerine Notlar." TDAY Belleten. 1970: 47-68.

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 .

Ünver, Mustafa. Hurûfîlik ve Kuran: Nesîmî Örneği. Ankara: 2003.

Üzüm, İlyas. "Nesīmī–Görüşleri." TDVİA. 33, [n.d.]: 5-6.

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Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi 2644

Nuruosmaniye Yazma Eser KÜtüphanesi 4222

Nuruosmaniye Yazma Eser KÜtüphanesi 4915

Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi 406

The Personal Library of Fuad Köprülü

National Library H.O. 142

Physical Description

Number of folios

136 ff.

History

Place

Edirne (Turkey)

Date of copy

17th. century