Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi

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Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (* around 1546 in Bursa ; † 1604 ) was an Ottoman lawyer, theologian, poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. His main work Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara ( Eng . Memories of the Poet ) is one of the best-known Ottoman Tezkire , a bibliographic encyclopedia of poets and poems.

Life

Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi was born in the year 993 of the Islamic calendar, which began on March 4, 1546. He was the son of Mullah Ala al-Din Ali, who was known as Ali Çelebi (1510 / 11–1572). The father worked as an Ottoman lawyer and came from Isparta in Anatolia . Hasan was born in Bursa, where the father worked as a judge ( Qādī ).

Hasan Çelebi studied Islamic law and theology at a madrasa and then started a professional career as an assistant to the legal scholar Ebu Suud . In 1567/68 he became a teacher himself. In 1582/83 he was awarded the title of Müderris , a religious teacher, at the mosque of Mehmed II. Five years later he became a scholar at the Suleymaniye mosque .

In the Islamic year 999 (1590/91) he became a judge - first in Aleppo , then in Cairo and Edirne . He was sent again to Cairo, then to Bursa (1598/99), Gallipoli , the Eyup district in Constantinople and to Eski Zagra (July 1602).

He retired on March 15, 1604 and lived the rest of his life on a mansion in Egypt .

Hasan Çelebi's brother Fehmi († May 1596) was also a well-known poet.

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Hasan Çelebi's work Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara was the last major bibliographic work on poets in the 16th century and was divided into three sections. It surpassed all others in terms of both linguistic quality and information content. He completed it in 1586 and dedicated it to Hoca Sadeddin Efendi . The Tezkire contains information on 600 poets and their work. Many manuscripts have survived.

literature

  • İbrahim Kutluk (Ed.) Kınalızade Hasan Çelebi. Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara . 2 volumes, Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara 2014, ISBN 978-9751602060 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Cornell H. Fleischer: Bureaucrat and intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: the historian Mustafa Âli (1541–1600) . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986, ISBN 978-0691054643 , pp. 43 f. ( Online at Google Books ).
  2. ↑ a b c d M. Th. Houtsma: EJ Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam. 1913-1936 . Volume IV, EJ Brill, Ledien / New York 1987, p. 1017 ( online at Google Books ).
  3. ↑ Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi , Biyografya, accessed April 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ Mustafa İsen: Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi . In: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi , Volume 25, p. 418.
personal data
SURNAME Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kınalızâde Hasan Celebi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman jurist, theologian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1546
PLACE OF BIRTH Bursa
DATE OF DEATH 1604