Abstract
Karbala Elegies of Osman Nevres I: Hazret-i Hüseyin’s Elegy
In this study firstly, information about the main lines
of Karbala elegies and Osman Nevres were given, then the
poet’s Karbala Elegy, also called Mersiye-i Hazret-i
Hüseyin, was tried to be introduced in detail, also the
popular transcribed text and facsimile of the elegy was
given.
In this elegy with 12 stanzas, which he wrote in Nevres
terkîb-i bent verse, the subject is addressed by he focused
on the unjust and cruel murder of Hz. Hussein, giving
place to various scenes from the Karbala incident,
expressing the pain suffered and the grieving intensely; he
also expressed his reproach and anger towards the heavens
and cursed Yazid and his men. In the end, the poet took an
attitude of consenting to the accident by stating that the
events happened as a result of fate, and said that he was
incapable of describing such a sad event fully.
It is aimed to present one of the Karbala elegies written
in the last period of classical poetry, to the benefit of the
scientific world, by introducing the work, whose entire Latin letter text is included in the divan publication, for
the first time, and thus to contribute to research and
studies on the subject.
Keywords
Osman Nevres, Karbala elegies, elegy, Hz. Hüseyin.