Abstract


Hz. Dâvud Kıssasının Kusûrî’ye Ait Yeni Bir Anlatısı ve Bu Hikâyenin Mesnevî Bağlamında Mukayeseli İncelemesi

The Qur'an, the hadiths, the stories of the prophets, Sufism, and Arabic and Persian literatures are the fundamental sources of Turkish Islamic literature. Among these, the stories of the prophets have a wide impact both in didactic prose works and in poetry. In addition to the accounts of Prophet Dawud mentioned in the Qur'an, there is also a story about him in Rumi's Masnawi. This story narrates the story of a man who, during the time of Prophet Dawud, prays to God day and night for lawful sustenance without hardship. After years of praying, he slaughters and eats a cow that enters his home, leading to a trial over this action in which Prophet David serves as judge. This story was also written by Kusuri, an 18th-century poet from Antep. In Kusuri’s version, unlike in the Masnawi, metaphors from both the eras of Prophet Moses and Prophet Dawud are intertwined. At the end of the poem, the poet states that he translated the story, originally written in Persian prose, into Turkish verse. This suggests the possibility of another version of this story in Persian prose outside of the Masnawi. The poetic story discussed in the article is included in a manuscript cataloged under inventory number 001290 in the Rare Works Collection of the Atatürk Library. The poem, titled Hikayet-i Garibe, is found on folios 109b–111a of the manuscript. In this article, the language, style, and content of Hikayet-i Garibe are analyzed and compared with the story in the Masnawi. For the purpose of comparison, A. Avni Konuk’s Mesnevî-i Şerîf Şerhi was used, as it offers an interpretive perspective distinct from classical translations and commentaries of the Masnawi.



Keywords

Old Turkish literature, Ottoman Turkish, Prophet Dawud, Masnawi, 18th century, Kusuri, Hikayet-i Garibe.


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