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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi

Collection

İzmir

Shelfmark

603

Contents

Muḥammedīye (Yazıcıoğlu Mehmet -1451)

Author

Yazıcıoğlu Mehmet -1451

Show other names

يازيجي اوغلو محمد

Yazıcızāde Meḥmed, d. 1451

Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed b. Yazıcı Ṣāliḥ b. Süleymān, d. 1451

Yazıcıoğlu Mehmet, -1451 (authorised)

Mehmet Yazıcıoğlu, -1451 (variant)

Yazıcıoğlu Mehmed, d. 1451 (variant)

Yazıcıoğlu, Mehmet, -1451 (variant)

Yazıcıoğlu Mehmet, d. 1451 (variant)

Yazıcıoğlu Muhammed, -1451 (variant)

يازيجي اوغلو محمد (variant)

Biographical notes

Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, d. 855/1451, the son of Yazıcı Ṣāliḥ b. Süleymān, a clerk employed in the Ottoman government, and older brother of Ahmet Bican, active 15th century, lived during the reign of Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451. Born in a village outside of Malkara (Tekirdağ, Turkey), he later settled in Gelibolu (Turkey) where he composed his works and spent the rest of his life. Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed was a disciple of Hacı Bayram Veli, -1429 the founder of the Bayramiyye order.

Title

Muḥammedīye

محمديه

Notes

The Muḥammedīye (محمديه) is a Turkish verse translation of the author's Arabic Maghārib al-zamān (مغارب الزمان). Prefaced by a chapter on Creation, the work treats the birth of the Prophet Muḥammad and life and events up to the deaths of Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, d. 670 and Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, -680. The third section covers the end of the world and Judgment Day. Consisting of more than 8700 couplets, the Muḥammedīye (محمديه) was completed in Jumādá al-ākhir 853 [1449 CE] in Gelibolu (Turkey). The author states that he wrote the third section after having a dream in which both the Prophet Muḥammad and Hacı Bayram Veli, -1429 appeared.

Composed for the edification for a popular audience, this work was often recited in public performances during the Ottoman period.

Main language of text

Ottoman Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, . Muḥammedīye. , [n.d.].

Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, . Muḥammedīye. , [n.d.].

Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, . Muḥammedīye. , [n.d.].

Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, . Muḥammedīye. , [n.d.].

Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, . Muḥammedīye. , [n.d.].

Studies

Krstić, Tijana. Contested Conversions to Islam. Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011.

Uzun, Mustafa. "Muhammed." TDVİA. 30 2005.

Physical Description

Number of folios

268 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

19

Seal

waqf seal in 1a f. by al-Hacc Ahmed Efendi الحاج احمد افندی

History

Date of copy

20th. century