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List Of Ottoman Poets
This is a list of poets who wrote under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire, or — more broadly — who wrote in the tradition of Ottoman Dîvân poetry. Male poets *Bâkî (باقى) *Fuzûlî (فضولی) * Hayâlî (خيالى) * Nedîm (نديم) * Nef'i (1572–1635) * Nesîmî (نسيمى) *Neşâtî (نشاطى) *Rewani (1475-1524) Female poets * Mihri Hatun (مھری خاتون) (died 1506) * Hubbi Hatun (حبی خاتون) (died 1590) *Umihana Čuvidina (c.1794 - c.1870) See also *List of contemporary Turkish poets This list includes the notable Turkish poets. *Ahmet Emin Atasoy (1944-) *Behçet Aysan (1949-1993) *Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884–1958) * Asım Bezirci (1927-1993) * Ahmet Haşim (1885–1933) *Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (1898–1973) *Nazım Hikmet ... {{Lists of poets Ottoman ** Poets from the Ottoman Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) // CITED: p. 36 (PDF p. 38/338) also known as the Turkish Empire, was an empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt (modern-day Bilecik Province) by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe and, with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed the Conqueror. Under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire marked the peak of its power and prosperity, as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Literature
Turkish literature ( tr, Türk edebiyatı) comprises oral compositions and written texts in Turkic languages. The Ottoman and Azerbaijani forms of Turkish, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, were highly influenced by Persian language, Persian and Arabic literature,Bertold Spuler''Persian Historiography & Geography''Pustaka Nasional Pte Ltd p 69 and used the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. The history of the broader Turkic literature spans a period of nearly 1,300 years. The oldest extant records of written Turkic languages, Turkic are the Orkhon script, Orhon inscriptions, found in the Orkhon Valley, Orhon River valley in central Mongolia and dating to the 7th century. Subsequent to this period, between the 9th and 11th centuries, there arose among the nomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia a tradition of Oral literature, oral Epic poetry, epics, such as the ''Book of Dede Korkut'' of the Oghuz Turks— ancestors of the modern Turkish people—and the Manas (epic), M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bâkî
Bâḳî (باقى) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: مخلص ''mahlas'') of the Ottoman Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî (محمود عبدالباقى) . Considered one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature and Azerbaijani literature. Bâkî came to be known as ''Sultânüş-şuarâ'' (سلطان الشعرا), or "Sultan of poets". Life Bâkî was born to a poor family in Constantinople, his father being a muezzin at the Fatih Mosque. Originally, his family apprenticed him to a harness-maker, but he would often skip work to attend classes at a nearby ''medrese'', or Islamic school. Because of this, his family eventually allowed him to formally attend school. Bâkî was a good student, and he attended the lectures of many of the famous lecturers of the time. It was during his school years that his interest in and talent for poetry began to take shape, helped largely by the established poet Zâtî (ذاتی) . After completing school, he worked for some time as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuzûlî
Mahammad bin Suleyman ( Classical Azerbaijani: ), better known by his pen name Fuzuli ( az-Arab, فضولی ; ; * ota, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی ; * fa, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی . – 1556), was a 16th century poet, writer and thinker, who wrote in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Arabic and Persian languages. Considered one of the greatest contributors to the divan tradition of Azerbaijani literature, Fuzuli in fact wrote his collected poems (divan) in all three languages. He is also regarded as one of the greatest Ottoman lyrical poets with knowledge of both the Ottoman and Chagatai Turkic literary traditions, as well as mathematics and astronomy. Life Fuzûlî is generally believed to have been born around 1480 in what is now Iraq, when the area was under Ak Koyunlu Turkmen rule; he was probably born in either Karbalā’ or an-Najaf. He was an Azerbaijani descended from the Turkic Oghuz Bayat tribe, who were scattered through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayâlî
Hayâlî (خيالى) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: ﻡﺨﻠﺺ ''mahlas'') of an Ottoman Turkish poet. Life Hayâlî lived in the Divan tradition. Though the exact birth date of the poet later called Hayâlî is not known, it is known that he was born during the reign of Sultan Bâyezîd II (1481–1512), in the city of Yenice-i Vardar in Macedonia. His real name was Mehmed (محمد). Apparently, Mehmed was interested in poetry from a very young age, as the biographer ‘Âşık Çelebi recounts that he read the '' Bôstân'' ("The Orchard") and the ''Gülistân'' ("The Rose Garden") of the Persian poet Sa‘di in his youth.Şentürk 263 At some time during his youth, the wandering Sufi dervish Baba ‘Alî Mest-i ‘Ajem ("Father ‘Alî the Drunkard of Persia") came to Yenice-i Vardar with his disciples, and Mehmed was attracted enough to him to leave home, join the group, and follow Baba ‘Alî to Istanbul, the Ottoman capital. During the journey, he was furthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nedîm
Ahmed Nedîm Efendi (نديم) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: ﻡﺨﻠﺺ ''mahlas'') of one of the most celebrated Ottoman poets. He achieved his greatest fame during the reign of Ahmed III, the so-called Tulip Era from 1718 to 1730. He was known for his slightly decadent, even licentious poetry often couched in the most staid of classical formats, but also for bringing the folk poetic forms of ''türkü and şarkı'' into the court.Salzmann, Ariel (2000) "The Age of Tulips: Confluence and Conflict in Early Modern Consumer Culture (1550-1730)" p. 90 ''In'' Quataert, Donald (ed.) (2000) ''Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922: An Introduction'' Albany State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, pp. 83-106, Life Nedim, whose real name was Ahmed (أحمد), was born in Constantinople sometime around the year 1681. His father, Mehmed Efendi, had served as a chief military judge (قاضسکر ''kazasker'') during the reign of the Ottoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nef'i
Nefʿī (نفعى) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: مخلص ''maḫlaṣ'') of an Ottoman Turkish poet and satirist whose real name was ʿÖmer (عمر) (c. 1572, Hasankale, Erzurum – 1635, Istanbul). Biography Nefʿī came to the Ottoman capital of Istanbul sometime before the year 1606, when he is noted to have been working in the bureaucracy as the comptroller of mines (''maden mukataacısı''). Nef'i attempted to gain the sultan's favor for his poetry, but was unsuccessful with Ahmed I (reigned 1603–1617) and Osman II (reigned 1618–1622). However, finally, Sultan Murad IV (reigned 1623–1640) recognized his skill and granted him a stipend. Because of his vicious literary attacks on government officials, he was executed by strangulation in 1635 at the request of ''kaymakam Kaymakam, also known by many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nesîmî
Alī Imādud-Dīn Nasīmī ( az, Seyid Əli İmadəddin Nəsimi سئید علی عمادالدّین نسیمی, fa, عمادالدین نسیمی), often known as Nesimi, was a 14th-century Azerbaijani Ḥurūfī poet. Known mostly by his pen name of Nasimi, he wrote in Azerbaijani, Persian and sometimes Arabic, being the composer of one ''divan'' in Azerbaijani, one in Persian, and a number of poems in Turkish and Arabic. He is considered one of the greatest Turkic mystical poets of the late 14th and early 15th centuries and one of the most prominent early divan masters in Turkic literary history. According to the third edition of the ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' Nasimi "is considered to be the true founder" of Turkic classical''ʿarūḍ'' poetry. Name and titles The third edition of the ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' notes that according to some sources, including Sibṭ Ibn al-ʿAjamī (died 1415), Nasimi's given name was Ali. The name "Nasimi" was the pen name (''makhlaṣ'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neşâtî
Neşāṭī (نشاطى was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: ﻡﺨﻠﺺ ''maḫlas'') of an Ottoman poet. He was a Sufi, or Islamic mystic, of the Mevlevi Order, and his poetry is often considered exemplary of the "Indian style" (سبك هندی ''sebk-i hindî'') of Ottoman poetry, a movement which flourished beginning in the 17th century. Life Though one source claims that Neşâtî's real name was Süleymân (سليمان), the majority of sources give his name as Ahmed (أحمد). He was born in Edirne, in the region of Thrace. It is not known exactly when he was born, though it is speculated that it was around the year 1600, on the evidence of a poem commemorating the winter of 1621–22, in which year the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul was known to be covered with ice: :ن نقش كوستره آیا مشاعبيز سرما :كه همچو آيينه يغ بسته اولدى صفحه آب :''Ne naḳş göstere āyā müşa`biz-i sermā'' :''Ki hemçü āyīne yaḫ-beste oldu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rewani
Rewani (c. 1475 – 1524), ''Ilyas Shudja Celebi'', was an Ottoman poet. Born in Edirne the son of 'Abd Allah, he was employed by Bayezid II as administrator of the ''surre''; money for the poor in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina."Rewani", W. Bjorkmann and Kathleen Burrill, ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. VIII, ed. C.E.Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P.Heinrichs and G. Lecomte, (Brill, 1995), 489. After being accused of embezzling, he was promptly dismissed. He found service with Prince Selim, Bayezid's son, in Trabzon Province. Yet again, he fell into disfavor through some indiscretion, but was forgiven by Prince Selim. Following Selim's overthrow of Bayezid II, Rewani became superintendent of the kitchen(''matbakh emini'') and later entrusted with the administration of the Hagia Sophia. Yet, during his lifetime, Rewani was accused of peculation and plagiarism."Chapter XII: Rewani", Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, ''A History of Ottoman Poetry'', Vol. 2, ed. Edward G. Browne, (Luzac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihri Hatun
Mihri Hatun, also known as Lady Mihri and Mihri Khatun (born ca. 1460 – died 1506 AD; مهری خاتون), was an Ottoman poet. She was the daughter of a ''kadi'' (an Ottoman judge) and according to sources she spent most of her life in and near Amasya, in Anatolia.Havlioglu, 2 Documentation places her as a member of the literary circle of Prince Ahmed, the son of Sultan Bayezid II.Lewis, 207 The myth that has grown up around her states that she “fell in love many times but insists that all these loves were chaste and innocent, and that she led a life of unremitting virtue.” Lewis notes that though described as both “beautiful and ardent, she remained unmarried.” However, because the major sources on her life, tezkires, were written by male contemporaries who over emphasized virginity and sexuality as indicitive of her morality, it is impossible to interpret the extent to which she was innocent and chaste. She is referred to as the "Sappho of the Ottomans". Poetry Lady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubbi Hatun
Ayşe Hubbi Hatun ( ota, حبی خاتون; "''the living one''" or "''womanly''" and "''the ammirated one''"; died 1590) was a lady-in-waiting to Sultan Selim II and later to his son Sultan Murad III of the Ottoman Empire. She was a notable Ottoman poetess of the sixteenth century. Early life Born as Ayşe, Hubbi Hatun spent her early childhood in the city of Amasya. She was the daughter of Şeyh Akşemseddin, and granddaughter of Beşiktaşlı Şeyh Yahya Efendi. She was very well educated, and had learned Arabic, studied poetry. Marriage She married her first cousin, son of her maternal aunt, Prince Selim's tutor, Akşemseddinzade Şemsi Efendi, milk brother of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She had a daughter married to poet Mehmed Vusuli Efendi, known as Molla Çelebi. A garden in Fındıklı belonged to Hubbi Hatun. Career After her husband's death in 1551, she remained at the court and was a boon companion of Prince Selim. Hubbi Hatun was famous for her beauty and poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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