NÂKÂM AND HIS MASNAVI NAMED FERHÂD U ŞÎRÎN
NÂKÂM VE FERHÂD U ŞÎRÎN MESNEVİSİ

Author : Kadir ALPER
Number of pages : 462-521

Abstract

İsmail Nâkâm is one of the poets of 19th century classical Turkish Literature in Azarbaijan area. The poet born in Şeki in 1839 took madrasah education, learnt Arabic, Persian and Russian and made literary poetic and prosaic works . The poet in 1908 died in the same city have literary works named as as Turkish Divan (collected poems), Leylâ vü Mecnûn, Ferhâd-ü Şîrîn, Gencîne-i Edeb, Latif-nâme, Hayâlât-ı Perişân, Münşeat, Dört Efendi. Nâkâm wanted to put forth a similar work as Genceli Nizâmî’s hamse but he could have written only three masnavis. One of these three masnavis -Ferhâd-ü Şîrîn is the subject of this study. The poet whose Works reminds the effect of Nizami wrote Ferhâd ü Şîrîn with the same effect but he added original scenes to hiswork around the main theme suitable to his age. The heroes of the masnavi are the same. In his work Nakam, focused on Ferhâd and Şîrîn clearly where as he especially put less emphasis on Hüsrev. Mehinbânû, Şîrîn, Ferhâd and Hüsrev are the unchanging heroes of the story. Ferhâd u Şîrîn, one of the samples that reflects the style and content features of classical masnavi literature fluently, is composed of 808 couplets. 21 couplets at the end of the work is in Persian.

Keywords

Classical Turkish Literature, Mesnevi, Nâkâm, Ferhâd u Şîrîn

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