HARMAL SEED IN DIVAN POETRY
DİVAN ŞİİRİNDE SİPEND/ÜZERLİK

Author : Seda UYSAL BOZASLAN -- Arife ÇAĞLAR
Number of pages : 269-288

Abstract

Harmal seed is a agricultural plant which has been known since the early ages and also used in treatment of physical and psychiatric disorders by several civilisation such as sumerian, hittite, indian, greek, roman and turkish. As a general use this plant has a lot of naming in Turkish, Persian and Arabic. With the belief of protecting from death, disease, malignancy and spell this plant is commonly used in folk medicine. However it is mainly noted for evil eye and incense in Turkish culture and literature. While in folk literature the plant is mentioned as “y/üzerlik”, in texts of Divan literature its name only takes part as “sipend”. With this study, it is tried to reveal that which imaginations, similes and metaphors was come up by poets in Divan literature where harmal seed has many social and cultural factors. For this purpose, a lot of mathnawis and

Keywords

Harmal seed, evil eye, incense, simile,

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