Tezkire
Tezkire, from Arabic meaning "something that causes one to remember",[1] is an Oriental form of bibliographical dictionary of bibliographical compendium.[2] The most known are the tezkires of poets. First seen in the early Arab literature, they came into Persian literature and later into Ottoman one. The tezkires of poets were incessantly written between 16th-century and 20th-century in the Anatolian area. They contain information on both poets and their poetic work,[1] and are written both in prose and verses making the tezkire genre unique.[2] A valuable source of information for today's scholar, they present also a typo of ego-document due to the combination of objective with subjective material.[2]
Ottoman poetry tezkires
The first tezkire of Ottoman literature was named Heşt Behişt (Eigh Springs), work of Sehi Bey of Edirne (1471?-1548), was completed in 1538.[3] 2 other editions would follow until 1548. It narrated the work and life of 241 poets. It was very well received and supported by the Ottoman high social circles.[2]
A distinguished tezkire is the one of Latifi of Kastamonu (1491-1582), the second in chronology[4] and is the one with most extant copies (91).[2] It was finished and presented to Sultan Suleiman I in 1546.[5] Another important one comes from Aşık Çelebi. Meşairü'ş-şuara (Senses of Poets), published in 1568, covers the work and life of 427 poets. It is the 4th in chronology, and the second by the number of extant copies (30).[2]
Other tezkire:
- Riyazi - Riyazü'ş Şuara
- Faizi - Zübtedü'l-Eşar
- Mirzade Mehmed Efendi - Salim Tezkiresi
- Ali Güfti - Teşrifatü'ş Şuara
- Davud Fatin - Haitmetül-Eşar
- Hasan Çelebi - Sakiname
- Ahdi - Gülşen-i Şuara
See also
References
- ^ a b The Tezkires of Poet: Indispensable Sources for History of our Literature- Abstract, Filiz Kilic
- ^ a b c d e f Ralf Elger, Yavuz Köse (2010), Many ways of speaking about the self : Middle Eastern ego-documents in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (14th-20th century), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, p. 17, ISBN 9783447062503
- ^ Selcuk Aksin Somel (2010), The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire, Scarecrow Press, p. 261, ISBN 9780810875791
- ^ Tülây Duran (1988), The Ottoman Empire in the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent, vol. 2, Historical Research Foundation, Istanbul Research Center, p. 211, ISBN 9789751700643, OCLC 22325635
- ^ Pinar Emiralioglu (2014), Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Transculturalisms, 1400-1700, Ashgate, p. 79, ISBN 9781472415332