Conference Presentations by Ahmet Barış Ekiz
There is a widespread agreement in Ottoman literary historiography that the genre of biographical... more There is a widespread agreement in Ottoman literary historiography that the genre of biographical dictionaries of poets in Ottoman literature was a continuation of Persian and, to some extent, Chagatai tazkirah traditions. Apart from underlining the references to Timurid literary legacy in the well-known works in the classical examples of Ottoman tazkirahs, scholars in the field have not yet discussed the role of the other literary traditions and genres in motivating the formation of Ottoman tazkirahs. By especially focusing on Aşık Çelebi's Meşâirü'ş-şuarâ, one of the canonical tazkirahs in the Ottoman literary tradition which denotes a major turning point in the Ottoman literary tradition, this study aims to propose another framework for the intellectual influences behind Ottoman tazkirah genre, arguing that it creates a textual dialogue with the classical Arabic literary tradition, particularly with works belonging to Mamluk literary sphere. These are Abû Ishak al-Ḥuṣrī's (d. 1022) Zahru'l-âdâb and Abu's-safa Ṣafadī's (d.1363) Kitāb al-Ghayth al-musajjam fī sharḥ Lāmiyat al-ʻAjam. Aşık especially makes use of these two works in the prolegomena (muqaddimah) of
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Conference Presentations by Ahmet Barış Ekiz
Translations by Ahmet Barış Ekiz