Abstract
Sıyâmî’s Antakya Şehrengiz
The şehrengiz, about which the researchers in the
Classical Turkish Literature have different opinions on the
source of this genre, is the poetical work which tells about
the social situations. These works which have been started
to be written up since the XVI. century and in a short span
of time witnessing to the social life of the era they have been
written, are ottoman poetry’s window to the world. Being
the cities about which the most the şehrengizs are written
have been İstanbul, Bursa, Edirne, they have been
determined yet some of their texts are not present.
One of the şehrengizs written in the Turkish Literature
was the Antakya Şehrengizi of Sıyâmî, who was a XVI.
century poet and negatively cited in some sources. In this
şehrengiz, consisting of 89 verses, which was written
according to the masnavi poetry genre, and between the 2a
and 5b leafs of Sıyâmî’s Divan, 20 beauties were cited who
were living in Antakya.
In our study, the şehrengiz was translated and some
examinations were made on that work, which was registered
in the poet’s divan at Atatürk University Seyfeddi
Keywords
Classical Turkish Literature, şehrengiz, Sıyâmî, Antakya.