Abstract
A Poet Fond to Paronomasia in the Period of Muhammad the II’th: Khafî
In this article firstly we have mentioned about era of the
Conquerer Sultan Muhammad the II’th. Shortly we have
talked about his political and military successes. Later we
have emphasized that Fatih Sultan Muhammad supported
artists and poets. In the first chapter on the light of biographical
sources we have written biography of Khafî who is one of
the most important poets of the Fatih Sultan Muhammadian
era and not very well knovn. After that we have talked about
Khafî’s penname, we mentioned he is from Edirne which is
one of the most important cultural centers of Ottoman
Empire. We have focused on the fact that Fatih Sultan
Muhammad supported Khafî. Fallowing this we have dealt
with the problem about whether Khafî is an illeterate person
or not. Because according to biographical sources although he
is an illeterate person he has written poems in classical style.
In the second chapter we have mentioned about Khafî’s
Works. One of them is Zâd al-Maâd written in verse and
about biography of the prophet Muhammad. After that we
have analysed the second literary work of Khafî is his Divan -
collection of poetry-. There are two manuscript copies of
Dîvan we have described. One of them is in National Library
of Russia in Saint Petersbourg and the other is in Zagreb
Science and Art Academy Library. Lastly we have underlined
that Khafî loved using paranomasia in his poetry and given
some examples of it.
Keywords
Khafî, Divan, Paronomasia, Fatih Sultan Muhammad, Zâd al-Meâd.