Abstract
Reflections from Baykara's Gathering -Literary Gatherings 1-
Maveraünnehir (Mâwarâ’ an-Nahr/Transoxania) and
the Turkistan regionareamong the leading geographical
regions where the Turkish culture and civilization have
been formed and developed. The Turkish sultans who ruled
those lands, their high official sandeducatedelites of the
society woul dorganise meeting storecite and discusspoetry,
which were later known as the Baykara
Meclisleri (literary gathering sorganised by Baykara), and
those gatherings had greatin fluence on the formative
period of Turkish culture and civilization in thoselands.
The Bedâyi’u’l-vekâyi by Zeynuddîn Mahmûd-ı Vâsıfî is
one of the important workswhich gives information about
the characteristics of those meetings. This article will examine
the literary gathering smentioned in Vâsıfî'swork,
with a particularfocus on theonedatedto 14 February 1514,
and some other sorganised in thefollowing days.
Keywords
majlis, literarygatherings of Bayqara, poetry, lügaz, muamma, story, award