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Niyazi-i Mısri Book Description

Muhammed Niyazi-i Mısrî (1618-1694) was born in Malatya (Aspozi). He studied religion and Sufism in Malatya, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Baghdad, Karbala and for a long time in Egypt. He arrived in Istanbul in 1646. In 1654, Ümmi from Elmalı became a disciple of Sinan. He achieved widespread fame among his contemporaries, the main reason for which could be the powerful conflicts between the ruler and the sovereign. His poems resonated in this environment because they were based on Folk Culture; His poems were memorized and passed on from mouth to mouth, and were read and interpreted with enthusiasm in religious sect meetings.

Niyazi-i Mısrî was a follower of Fuzûlî and Yûnus Emre. He was the one who re-emerged Yunus Emre in the seventeenth century. In a century when Divan poetry gave its most developed examples, its return to the thirteenth century and to the Turkmen culture, where Fuzûlî was understood to be among his followers, was also a horizon opening for his age. In his poetry, the "images" of Divan literature are pushed back; highlighting the common pronunciations of the people instead of pronunciations of foreign words in accordance with their own rules and skillfully placing these pronunciations in the prosodic forms; It makes Niyazi-i Mısrî a pioneer poet of his age. For this reason, the poet's place in our literature, whose poems are often taken as secondary examples, seems to deserve a new evaluation due to the attention he receives and the "folk" ground on which he is based.

The fact that the last line is among the goals of the new literary formation makes Niyazi-i Mısrî remarkable in terms of his forward-looking style within Divan poetry as well as the internal initiative of New Turkish Literature. For this reason, the present publication, based on the "Bulak" edition (Cairo 1259 / 1843), has been put forward with the idea of presenting a text in which we can read the poet as he was read at the beginning of the modernizing period of Turkish Literature.



Number of Pages: 256

Year of Printing: 2012


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Demos Publications

First Print Year: 2012

Language: Turkish