Abstract
Şirvanli Habîbullâh’s Commentary of Esmâ-i Hüsnâ
As is known, the types of religious literature such as
tevhid, münacat, commentary of esmâ-i hüsnâ, na‘t, the
translation of forty hadiths etc. are important in the history
of Turkish literature. Şirvanlı Hatiboglu Habibullah who
was a poet of 16th century wrote various Turkish verse
books like the commentary of esmâ-i hüsnâ, the translation
of forty hadiths, the translation of Caliph Ali’s hundredsayings.
Şirvanlı Hatiboglu Habibullah that there is not
any knowledge about his life in bibliographic and biographic
sources wrote these books in 1512 in Mısır for a
means to talk to Kansu Gavri who was the sultan of Memlük.
According to an entry in the end of the manuscript, it
was written by poet’s hand and there is sequentially
chapters such as tevhid, na't, sebeb-i te'lif, the eulogy of
Kansu Gavri, commentary of Esmâ-i Hüsna, the translations
of Prophet Mohammed’s forthy hadiths and Caliph
Ali’s hundred-sayings in it. The fact that the poet named
his work, consisted of booklets, as “Sultân Hitâbı Hac Kitâbı”,
makes us think he had intention of going to Hejaz to
carry out Hajj duty with the help of the Sultan to whom he
dedicated the book.
Hatiboglu Habibullah translated and commented the 99
most beautiful names of Allah into Turkish in the first part
of his book. Each name was explained in two couplets. After
poet gave Turkish translations of the names, he mentioned
their influence and benefit. In this article, firstly it was
given information about Şirvanlı Habîbullâh’s life and
works; then the Commentary of Esmâ-i Hüsnâ was
presented as tran
Keywords
Hatiboğlu Habîbullâh, Şirvan, the Commentary of Esmâ-i Hüsnâ, Caliph Ali, Kansu Gavri.