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The Ottoman Divan poetry tradition embraced the influence of the Persian and, to a lesser extent, Arabic literatures. As far back as the pre-Ottoman Seljuk period in the late 11th to early 14th centuries CE, this influence was already being felt: the Seljuks conducted their official business in the Persian language, rather than in Turkish, and the poetry of the Seljuk court was highly ...
A large portion of the text is dedicated to conveying a world history, with the last and most important chapter (entitled the Tevârîh-i Mülûk-i âl-i ʿOsmân / Dastan ve Tevarihi Ali Osman / Dastan; "History of the Rulers of the House of Osman and Their Campaigns Against the Infidels") on the subject of the history of the Ottoman dynasty from Ertuğrul (father of the Osman I, founder of ...
Other poems of his, such as the so-called "infidel" poem, generally read as Nedîm describing his love for a person whose gender he can not figure out, could, according to Gültekin, also be related back to his criticism of gender ambiguity in traditional Ottoman poetry. [8] [16] The lines in which this is most obvious is the following: [8]
English. Read; Edit; View history ... This is a list of poets who wrote under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire, or — more broadly — who wrote in the tradition ...
Ottoman Divan poetry was a highly ritualized and symbolic art form. From the Persian poetry that largely inspired it, it inherited a wealth of symbols whose meanings and interrelationships—both of similitude (مراعات نظير mura'ât-i nazîr / تناسب tenâsüb ) and opposition (تضاد tezâd )—were more or less prescribed.
Yahya Bey took part in the Battle of Chaldiran of 23 August 1514 during his youth, led by Sultan Selim I, as well as the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–17 and Baghdad's expedition of 1535 under Sultan Suleiman. He earned the respect of major figures due to his poetry. [4] Yahya was inspired by where he spent most of his early years, in Ottoman ...
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, a prominent orientalist and historian of the Ottoman Empire, compared the work to Ovid's Ars Amatoria in his History of Ottoman Poetry. [13] Murat Bardakçı writes that the book, when first printed in book form in 1837, was banned in the Ottoman Empire, purportedly due to its opposition to the institution of marriage.
İsa Necati (died 1509), usually referred to as Necati or Nejati, was an Ottoman poet, and the first great lyric poet of Ottoman Turkish literature.Considered an original and eloquent poet, he won the praises of his contemporaries and later Turkish writers, securing for himself an important place in Turkish literary history.