Aşıq Ümer (1621–1707) was a Crimean Tatar medieval poet of

ashik An ashik (; ) or ashugh (; ka, :ka:აშუღი, აშუღი) is traditionally a List of oral repositories, singer-poet and bard who accompanies his song—be it a dastan (traditional epic story, also known as ''Azeri hikaye, hikaye' ...

and is one of the most famous representatives of the Turkic-speaking ashik poetry in general. Ashik poetry (; ) is a special kind of literary oeuvre, the representatives of which – folk poets-singers – accompany their performances with playing the string-plucked musical instrument ''

bağlama The bağlama or saz is a family of plucked string instruments and long-necked lutes used in Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East, Khazar, Central Asia including Germany, France, Belgium, TRNC, Netherlands, Albania, Greece,Bosnia, Serbia, Croat ...

''. Hence another name for this poetry – "bağlama poetry". He wrote mainly lyric poems (on mystical content and related to a soldier's theme) in the forms of Turkic folk poetry. Aşıq Ümer is also an author of poems that are traditional for classical oriental poetry –

ghazal ''Ghazal'' is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry that often deals with topics of spiritual and romantic love. It may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss, or separation from the beloved, and t ...

rubaʿi A ''rubāʿī'' (, from Arabic language, Arabic ; plural: ) or ''chahārgāna(e)'' () is a poem or a verse of a poem in Persian poetry (or its derivative in English and other languages) in the form of a quatrain, consisting of four lines (four ...

etcetera. He greatly influenced the later poets-improvisers (ashiks).''Mustafa Altuğ Yayla'
Yüzyıl osmanlı imparatorluğunda aşık ömer ve popüler kültür
— Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü // Ankara, 2013 (English: YAYLA, Mustafa Altuğ. Aşık Ömer and Popular Culture in 17th Century Ottoman Empire, Master Thesis, Ankara, 2013)

References

Sources

*Ergun, Sadettin Nüzhet, Aşık Ömer. Hayatı ve şiirleri, Istanbul, 1936; Banarlı, Nihat Sami, Resimli Türk edebiyatı tarihi, Istanbul, 1949. *Ашик Омер. Краткая литературная энциклопедия. Т. 1. — 1962

— Крым.Реалии // RFEL *''Mustafa Altuğ Yayla'
Yüzyıl osmanlı imparatorluğunda aşık ömer ve popüler kültür
— Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü // Ankara, 2013 Writers from the Crimean Khanate Crimean Tatar poets 1621 births 1707 deaths {{Poet-stub