bilig-34/ Summer 2005

Biographical Data and Poetry Criticism Through “Ēehar Makale”

Assist. Prof.Dr Yusuf ĒETŻNDAŠ

 

Abstract: The work famous with the name of Mecm'u'n-Nevadir is actually named as Ēehar Makale that belongs to Nizāmī-i ‘Arūzī (ö.H.552/M.1157). Ēehar Makale features to be the first tezkire penned in Persian Literature. Parallel to the significations of tezkire-writers in Herat in XV. century, Ēehar Makale executes to be the prototype of this particular literary genre. In the following article, this precious work has been analyzed in terms of both biographical data and poetry criticism criteria. Notwithstanding Arūzī's preference of Turkish palace life throughout the work, he immensely contributed to the development of the particular tezkire-writing tradition, especially by means of his coinage of new phrases for the terminology of criticism.

Key words: Ēehar Makale, XII. Palace Life, Biographical Data, Poetry Criticism.

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