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Dīvān (Aḥmedī (d. 815/1412-13))

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

Dīvān

ﺩﻳﻮﺍﻥ

Notes

Aḥmedī’s voluminous Dīvān consists of approximately 9000 couplets of poetry in various genres, including 764 ghazals. It contains 4 poems in praise of Prophet Muḥammad (d. 11/632) poem in praise of Jesus (d. 30-33), 31 poems in praise of Emīr Süleymān (804/1402-813/1411) and 7 poems in praise of Meḥmed I (816/1413-824/1421). Aḥmedī also has various poems in naẓīremecmūʿas.

This codex taken from yazmalar.gov.tr does not appear in the Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum by Charles Rieu (1888).

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Ahmedi, . Ahmedi Dîvânından Seçmeler. Edited by Akdoğan, Yaşar. Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 1988. ([edition of selected poems with modern Turkish translation])

Akdoğan, Yaşar. "Ahmedî Divanı I-II: Tenkitli Metin ve Dil Hususiyetleri." Dissertation, Istanbul: Istanbul University, 1979.

Studies

Akalın, Mehmet. "Ahmedi’nin Dili: Bir Kaç Söz." In Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı Belleten 1989. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1994, 9-153.

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

Kortantamer, Tunca. "Leben und Weltbild des altosmanichen Dichters Ahmedî." Türkologische Anzeiger. 1 1975.

Kut, Günay. "Ahmedī." TDVİA. 2 1989: 165-167.

Köprülü, M. F.. "Ahmedī." İA. 1 1950: 216-218.

Lewis, G. L.. "Aḥmadī." Encyclopedia of Islam. 1 1960: 299-300.

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History

Date of copy

15th. century