Hayâlî

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Hayalî; in Osmanlı Şiiri Antolojisi by Ahmet Atillâ Şentürk (painter unknown)

Hayâlî (خيالى), "the imaginative", later Hayâlî Bey (* around 1500 in Yenice-i Vardar , Macedonia ; † 1557 in Adrianople , Thrace ), was the name of an Ottoman poet. His exact year of birth is not known, he was born in the reign of Sultan Bayezid II (1481–1512). Hayâlî's real name is given as Mehmed (محمد). He wrote his poems in the tradition of Dīwān .

life and work

As the biographer Aşık Çelebi writes, Mehmed was interested in the works of the Persian poet Saadi, Bustan (“The Garden of Taste”) and Gülistân (“The Rose Garden”) , even in his early youth . During this time, the wandering came Sufi - Dervish Baba 'Alî Mest-i' AJEM ( "Father 'Alî, the drunkard from Persia") to Yenice-i Vardar. Mehmed was so fascinated by him that he left his father's house and joined the group around the dervish. On the further hike Baba 'Alî taught him both Sufism and the art of poetry.

One of Istanbul's top judges , Sarı Gürz Nûreddîn Efendi, got to know Mehmed and found that dealing with the group of dervishes around Baba 'Alî was unsuitable for the boy. He found him a nursing place with a local senior police officer, where he could continue his education and began to write under the poet name Hayâlî. The then Grand Vizier Makbul Ibrahim Pascha (1493–1536) and subsequently Sultan Suleyman I (1494? -1566) became aware of the young poet. Soon he was the sultan's protégé and favorite poet and accompanied him in the victory over the Johanniter on Rhodes (1522) and in the capture of Baghdad by the Safavids (1534). During this campaign he is said to have met the Azerbaijani poet Fuzûlî . He received several honorable titles, such as Melik-üş-şuarâ ("Prince of Poets"), Diyâr-ı Rûm'un Sultân-ı Şuarâsı ("Sultan of Poets in the Western Lands") and Hayâlî-i meşhûr ("Hayâlî the Famous"). Since this and his position at court aroused the envy of other poets, he was often the subject of diatribes.

In 1536, the Grand Vizier Makbul Ibrahim Pasha was deposed and executed, and Hayâlî lost his most important patron. Since Ibrahim Pasha's successor Rustem Pasha (1500–1561) was a sharp opponent of courtly decadence, Hayâlî asked for a post as Sanjak - Bey (governor) of a province near Adrianople in Thrace and has since held the title Hayâlî Bey. He died in his sanjak in 1557.

Edition

  • Cemâl Kurnaz (Ed.): Hayâlî Bey dîvânı'nın tahlili . Ankara Kurgan Edebiyat, 2012, ISBN 9789-7526-7609-1 .

literature

  • Walter G. Andrews: Hayâlî . In: Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology , ISBN 0-292-70472-0 , pp. 233-235.
  • Ahmet Atillâ Şentürk: Hayâlî Bey . In: Osmanlı Şiiri Antolojisi , ISBN 975-08-0163-6 , pp. 263-279. (Picture Hayâlîs on p. 262)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ahmet Atillâ Şentürk: Hayâlî Bey , p. 263.
  2. ^ A b Walter G. Andrews: Hayâlî , pp. 233-234.
  3. ↑ Halil Erdoğan Cengiz: Hayâlî. In: Divan Şiiri Antolojisi , Ankara, Bilgi Yayınevi, 1983; P. 375.
personal data
SURNAME Hayâlî
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehmed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Yenice-i Vardar , Macedonia
DATE OF DEATH 1557
Place of death Adrianople