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Item Restricted Dersaadet'te Sabah Ezanlarının dil yapısının düşündürdükleri(1982) Kaya, İ. GüvenItem Restricted Dersadet'te Sabah Ezanları(1981) Türkcan, ErgunItem Open Access II Selim dönemi sonuna kadar Osmanlı Edebî hâmîlik geleneği(2006) İsen-Durmuş, Tûbâ IşınsuThis study explores the Ottoman tradition of patronage of the literary arts up to the era of Selim II. It analyzes the definition of patronage, as well as its emergence and development, which coincided with the development of the empire, and compares disparate and similar views of patronage as it existed before and after the establishment of the Ottoman State. The main sources drawn upon in the chapters, “An Overview of the Founding of the Ottoman Tradition of Patronage of the Literary Arts,” “Patrons and Critics: The Presentation and Evaluation of Poetry during the Ottoman Empire’s Foundation,” “The Benefits of the Patronage System as Enjoyed by the Artist, the Patron and Society in General,” and “An Evaluation of Criticism of the Patronage System,” are poets’ biographies (tezkire) and original documents acquired from Topkapı Palace’s Treasury Archive. This study illustrates the crucial role that the Ottoman system of patronage played in the development of Ottoman poetry, and argues that the richness of the Ottoman poetic repertoire is due, in part, to its patrons’ double role as patrons and critics. At first glance, this system’s first benefit for the artist appears to be the câize, or reward given to the poet for a laudatory poem. However, when one considers the polemics surrounding this reward system, which point to its ceremonial nature, it becomes obvious that such material benefits were of lesser importance than the values of “protection and authority” which the patronage system ensured both patrons and artists.Item Open Access Tıfli hikayelerinin türsel gelişimi(2005) Sayers, David SelimThe Tıflî stories are a group of works consisting of prose stories mostly printed in nineteenth-century Istanbul. The main contention of this study, entitled “The Generic Development of the Tıflî Stories”, is that the Tıflî stories, examined in light of the historical process of their origin, development, and decline, present a full-fledged literary genre. The Tıflî stories, whose known corpus consists of the works “Bursalı’nın Kahvehanesi” (The Coffee Shop of the One from Bursa), Hançerli Hikâye-i Garîbesi (The Strange Story of the One with the Dagger), Hikâye-i Cevrî Çelebi (The Story of Cevrî Çelebi), Hikâye-i Tayyârzâde (The Story of Tayyârzâde), “Hikâyet” (“Story”, also known as Sansar Mustafa hikâyesi, “the story of Mustafa, the Weasel”), İki Birâderler Hikâyesi (The Story of the Two Brothers), Letâ’ifnâme (Collection of Amusing Stories), Meşhûr Tıflî Efendi ile Kanlı Bektâş’ın Hikâyesi (The Famous Story of Tıflî Efendi and Bloody Bektâş), and “Tıflî Efendi Hikâyesi” (The Story of Tıflî Efendi), as well as various versions of these works, have undergone numerous changes in the course of time. These changes are examined here under various headings, using a comparative approach also drawing on various outside sources on Ottoman history and literary theory. First, the study focuses on the works’ external and linguistic properties. Under the heading of external properties, variables such as print technology, page length and page dimensions are examined, while under the heading of linguistic properties, the ways in which these relate to social strata and the development from an oral to a written language are examined. After this, the study turns to various dimensions of the worldview presented by the stories. Here, issues such as social stata, forms of entertainment, gender relations, and concepts of virtue are dealt with. Lastly, the study examines the stories according to criteria of literary, or formal, realism, correspondence to historical reality, and social relevance. The developments that the Tıflî stories exhibit in all the examined areas enable us to divide them up into three main stages of development. In the conclusion of this study, these stages are related to the theory of literary genres and contextualized as representing the main stages in a process of generic development. The study concludes that the Tıflî stories, while influenced by various literary traditions, constitute a separate literary genre of their own.Item Restricted