Ayşe Teymûr

Ayşe İsmet Teymûr ( Arabic عائشة تيمور Aischa Taimur , DMG ʿĀʾiša Taimūr ; * November 1840 in Cairo ; † May 26, 1902 ibid) was a Turkish - Egyptian poet .

Life

Teymûr was born in Cairo in 1840 to an influential family. Her grandfather was the Ottoman Muhammed Kâşif. After Napoleon's withdrawal, he came to Egypt with Ottoman soldiers . Her father İsmail Teymûrî was Council President of the Khedive , her mother a Circassian slave named Mahtob Hanum. Her younger brother Ahmed Teymur Paşa, who was raised by her, owned the famous Teymûriyye library (Arabic: al-Khizana at-Taymuriyya) in Cairo.

As a child, Ayşe secretly listened to the conversations in her father's literary circle. Her father gave her private lessons until she was thirteen. She then married Mehmet Tevfik Efendi from Istanbul at the age of fourteen and went to Istanbul at his side. The mother died in 1869, the father in 1872 and the husband in 1875. After the husband's death, Ayşe Teymûr returned to Cairo. She regularly gathered poets and writers in her house.

She herself wrote poetry in Turkish , Persian and Arabic . The death of her daughter Tevhide at the age of 18 resulted in her temporarily ceasing her literary activities and even burning a number of poems, including numerous poems in the Persian language. Teymûr closed himself off from the outside world for several years and turned to religion and hadiths . It was only after seven years of mourning that she returned to her literary subjects. It is thanks to the insistence of her son Mahmut that Ayşe Teymûr gave her consent to the publication of some works. She died in Cairo in 1902.

Ayşe İsmet Teymûr is considered an early advocate of women's rights in Egypt as well as an author, who in her poetry also overcame her privileged origins. A crater on Venus has been named 'Al-Taymuriyya' in her honor.

literature

Mervat Fayez Hatem: Literature, gender, and nation-building in nineteenth-century Egypt. The life and works of ʹAísha Taymur . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Bülent Korkmaz: Modern Arap Edebiyatında Kadın Yazarların Doğuşu . Ankara University, Faculty of Linguistics, History and Geography, p. 69.
↑ Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu : Mısır'da Türkler ve Kültürel Mirasları. İstanbul 2006, p. 52
↑ Abuzer Kalyon: Divan Şiirinin Nil'deki Sesi Ayşe Teymûrî Dîvânı, Ankara 2013, p. 14
↑ Mervat Fayez Hatem, Literature, gender, and nation-building in nineteenth-century Egypt: the life and works of ʻAʼisha Taymur , Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 10 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Teymûr, Ayşe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	İsmet Teymûr, Ayşe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian-Turkish poet
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cairo
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 1902
Place of death	Cairo

[1] Bülent Korkmaz: Modern Arap Edebiyatında Kadın Yazarların Doğuşu . Ankara University, Faculty of Linguistics, History and Geography, p. 69.

[2] Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu : Mısır'da Türkler ve Kültürel Mirasları. İstanbul 2006, p. 52

[3] Abuzer Kalyon: Divan Şiirinin Nil'deki Sesi Ayşe Teymûrî Dîvânı, Ankara 2013, p. 14

[4] Mervat Fayez Hatem, Literature, gender, and nation-building in nineteenth-century Egypt: the life and works of ʻAʼisha Taymur , Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 10 ff.