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Contents

Work 6: Mirqāt al-adab (Aḥmedī (d. 815/1412-13))

LOC subject headings

Persian language (Dictionaries)

Persian language (Glossaries, vocabularies, etc)

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Author

Aḥmedī (d. 815/1412-13)

احمدي

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Tāc al-Dīn İbrāhīm b. Ḫıḍır Aḥmedī

تاج الدين ابراهيم بن خضر احمدي

Ahmedî, 1334?-1413 (authorised)

Tācüddı̄n İbrāhı̄m bin Ḫıżır, 1334?-1413 (variant)

Ahmedi, Taceddin, 1334?-1413 (variant)

Taceddin İbrahim ibn Hızr Ahmedi, 1334?-1413 (variant)

Tāc al-Dīn İbrāhīm bin Ḫiżir, 1334?-1413 (variant)

Tacettin İbrahim, 1334?-1413 (variant)

احمدي (variant)

Biographical notes

An Anatolian poet and man of letters from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century, Aḥmedī composed both in Old Anatolian Turkish and Persian. Although his date of birth and origins remain debatable, the strongest evidence points to his origins from the Germiyan (Turkey) region of western Anatolia. After furthering his education in Cairo studying under the religious scholar Akmal al-Dīn Bābartī in the late 14th century [1300-1399 CE], he returned to western Anatolia where he received the patronage of local rulers such as that of the Aydınids based in Ayasuluk and the Germiyanid ruler, Süleymān Shāh (r. 1367-1388) of Kütahya. He later entered Ottoman service and dedicated his literary works to Bayezid I's son, Süleymān Çelebi (Emīr Süleymān). Perhaps the most prolific Anatolian of his generation, Aḥmedī did much to advance the Islamic literary culture of Rūm, producing a variety of works in both Turkish and Persian, dealing with a range of poetic and religious themes.

Title

Mirqāt al-adab

Mirḳātü’l-adab

Mirkatü’l-edeb

مرقلات الادب

Notes

The Mirqāt al-adab (“Staircase of Literature”) is a versified Persian-Arabic dictionary. According to Tunca Kortantamer, the work was compiled for the Aydınid prince Ḥamza Bey (d. 864/1460), son of Fakhr al-Dīn ʿİsā (1360-1390), while the poet served as his tutor sometime between the years of 767 and 770 [1365-1368 CE]. Ali Temizel challenges this view, arguing that the dedicatee Ḥamza Bey (d. 864/1460) was rather the Ottoman prince sancak bey of Aydın. The work consists of a muqaddima of 33 couplets and two sections: the first part of the work is an Persian Arabic dictionary consisting of 45 verses (qiṭāʾ) and a second part of 27 small sections which provide concise information on Arabic grammar rules of ṣarf (morphology) and nahw (syntax), as well as various miscellany , such as the zodiac signs and their numerical values and the al-ʿasharat al-mubashshirūn [bi’l-cannah] , (i.e. the ten Companions whom the prophet foretold as going to paradise).

The place of composition is western Aegean Anatolia, in the Aydınid region

Incomplete at the end.

Main language of text

Persian and Arabic

Foliation

203v-230v

Bibliography

Studies

Alparslan, Ali. "Ahmedî’nin Yeni Bulunan Bir Eseri <Mirkat-ı Edeb>." Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi. 10 1960: 35-40.

Kortantamer, Tunca. Leben und Weltbild des altosmanischen Dichters Aḥmedī unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seines Diwans. Freiburg: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1973.

Temizel, Ali. "Aḥmedî’nin Bedâyi’u’s-Siḥr fî Ṣanâyi’iş-şi’r İsimli Eserindeki Türkçe ve Farsça Şiirleri." Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi. 14 2004: 89-105.

Temizel, Ali. "Ahmedi’nin Farsça Eserleri-Tenkitli Metin-İnceleme-Tercüme ve İndeks." PhD Dissertation, Ankara Üniversitesi, 2002.

Çetin, Nihad M.. "Ahmedî’nin Bilinmeyen Birkaç Eseri." Tarih Dergisi. 2, no. 3-4 1950-51: 217-229.

Çetin, Nihad. "Ahmedi'nin Mirkatü'l-edeb'i hakkında." Türkiyat Mecmuası. XIV 1965: 217-230.

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Physical Description

Number of folios

259 ff.

Seal

Waqf seal of Ḥadīce Sulṭān, dated 1231 AH [1816-1817 CE].

History

Date of copy

Late 16th Century