Mahmud Qırımlı (also known as Mahmud Qırımiy; uk, Махмуд Киримли, tr, Mahmud Kırımlı) was a late twelfth- to early thirteenth-century
Crimean Tatar poet. He is thought to have been the author of the ''
dastan'' ''Hikayet-i Yusuf ve Zuleyha'' ("Poem about
Yusuf and Zulaykha
"Yusuf and Zulaikha" (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) refers to a medieval Islamic version of the story of the prophet Joseph (Genesis), Yusuf and Potiphar's wife which has been for centuries in the Muslim world, and is f ...
"), which is considered the first literary work in the
Crimean Tatar language
Crimean Tatar () also called Crimean (), is a Kipchak Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar diasporas of Uzbekistan, Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria, as well as small communities in the United States and Canada. It should n ...
. The biography of Mahmud himself is little researched: most studies focus on his poem.
Editions
* Kırımlı Mahmud,
Yusuf ile Züleyha', ed. by İsmail Hikmet Ertaylan (Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, 1960)
* Махмуд Къырымлы, Юсуф ве Зулейха: тарихий дестан, ed. by Р. Фазыл and К. Къонъуратлы (Simferopol: Къы-рымдевокъувпеднешир, 2013)
References
Further reading
* (also availabl
in Russian.
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