A mes̱nevī of 95 couplets narrating a
miracle performed by Prophet Muḥammad which leads to the conversion of fourty
infidels. With the grace of God, a deer hunted by the infidels begins to speak, is
set free to go nurse her young, and comes back to the presence of Muḥammad and the
infidels together with a trap in which she is caught. The mes̱nevī ends with counsels against obeying one’s
base self (nefs). The work is found in
mecmū‘as containing other short folk
stories in mes̱nevī form, mostly belonging
to 14th and 15th century authors. This supports the claim that it was a popular work
of collective reading in the early Ottoman period. Show more
According to Amil Çelebioğlu, the only extant copy of this fourteenth century
mes̱nevī is located at the Atatürk
University library (S. Özege collection, A. Sırrı Levend 544) in Erzurum. At present there is a different
manuscript under the same collection and catalogue number. The work described by
Çelebioğlu is a mes̱nevī of 32 couplets, narrating a miracle by Prophet Muḥammad in
which he changes the orbits of the sun and the moon.
