Tachallus
Tachallus ( Arabic تخلص, DMG taḫalluṣ , “to get free”, “get away”, “pseudonym”, “artist name”, “nom de plume”, “writer's name”) is a terminus technicus in Islamic literature .
Literary form
In Qasida , the tachallus serves as a transition from the introduction to the second, mostly panegyric , part of the poem. The length can range from a few words, such as daʿ ḏā "enough of it (let's get to something completely different now)", to several lines. As-Sakkākī considered the tachallus, along with the beginning and end of the poem, to be one of the three parts to which special attention should be paid.
Nom de plume
In Persian literature , the term tachallus grew from the Timurid period to a second meaning: that of the poet's name or " nom de plume ". The tachallus here usually consists of one word which then, e.g. B. in Ghaselen , could be incorporated into the last line of the poem. The meanings range from reference to a ruler title ( Chaqani ) or name ( Saadi ) to one's own honorary title ( Hafis ) to deliberately ambiguous terms ( Fuzuli ). Many poets also used several noms de plume during their career.
literature
- GJH van Gelder and JTP de Bruijn: Ta kh alluṣ . In: PJ Bearman et al. (Ed.): The Encyclopaedia of Islam . 2nd Edition. Brill, Leiden [u. a.] 2000, ISBN 90-04-11813-6 , pp. X: 123a-b .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Hans Wehr: Arabic dictionary for the written language of the present , Wiesbaden 1968, p. 229, as well as Junker / Alavi: Persisch-German dictionary , Leipzig 1970, p. 158.