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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi

Collection

Hacı Mahmud Efendi

Shelfmark

3572

Contents

Work 2: Manṣūrnāme (Niyāzī-i Ḳadīm, fl. late 14th or early 15th century)

LOC subject headings

Sufi poetry, Turkish

Islamic poetry, Turkish

Masnavis

Author

Niyāzī-i Ḳadīm, fl. late 14th or early 15th century

نيازى قديم

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İlyās b. İlyās Şücāʾü’d-dīn Niyāzī

Dervīş Niyāzī

ﺍﻟﻴﺎﺱ ﺏ ﺍﻟﻴﺎﺱ ﺷﺟﺎﺀﺍﻟﺪﻳﻦ ﻧﻴﺎﺯﻱ

ﺩﺭﻭﻳﺶ ﻧﻴﺎﺯﻱ

Niyāzī-i Ḳadīm (authorised)

نيازي قديم (variant)

Biographical notes

Possible author of the Manṣūrnāme, who lived during the reign of Bāyezīd I (d.805/1403). He had three poetry collections (dīvān) in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, none of which are extant. Niyāzī-i Ḳadīm was the brother of Mollā Vildān who was one of the poets of the period. He became a disciple of Şeyḫ Hācı Ḫalīfe (d. 894/1489). Biographical dictionaries do not attribute a Manṣūrnāme to him. The work may thus belong to another unknown Niyāzī.

Title

Manṣūrnāme

منصورنامه

Notes

A mes̱nevī of 1066 couplets which tells the life story of Ḥallāj, al-Husayn ibn Manṣūr (d. 309/922), his Sufi doctrine, his miracles and death. The various copies of the work show significant variation. A section of 500 couplets is in common with Eşrefoġlı’s Naṣā’iḥ, which may be its source of origin. Scholars have argued that Niyāzī edited the content of the story first written by Eşrefoġlı. Two other recensions of the work may belong to Aḳḳoyunlu Aḥmedī (d. after 884/1480) and the 16th century [1500-1599 CE] poet Mürīdī. On the other hand, many of the Manṣūrnāmes attributed to Mürīdī in the catalogues are identical to the one by Niyāzī. The oldest copy of Niyāzī’s Manṣūrnāme dates from 894 AH [1489 CE] and has only 537 lines, half of the length of the second oldest copy. It is almost identical to the recension under the name of Aḥmedī.

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

63b-82a ff.

Columns

2

Ruled lines

17

Bibliography

Editions

Niyazi, İlyas b. İlyas Şücaüddin. Mansur-name: Hallac-ı Mansur'un Manzum Menakıbnamesi. Edited by Tatcı, Mustafa. Ankara: Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı, 1994.

Studies

Hickman, William. ‘The Counsels’: A previously unrecognized poem on al-Hallaj by Eşrefoğlu Rumi. Edited by Leiser, Gary. London: Routledge, 2015. (Turkish Language, Literature and History (Festschrift in Honor of Robert Dankoff))

Hickman, William. "Who Really Wrote the Ottoman Turkish Story of Hallaj?" Der Islam. 1, no. 93 2016: 170-81.

Massignon, Louis. "La legende de Hallace Mansur en pays turcs." Revue des Etudes Islamiques. , no. 46 1941: 67-115.

Massignon, Louis. "Recueil de textes inedits concernant l’histoire de la mystique en pays d’Islam." In Librairie orientaliste Paul Geunthner. Paris: 1929, 152-154.

Tatcı, Mustafa. "Mansurnâme." TDVİA. 28 2003: 17-18.

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History

Date of copy

18th. century