Neşâtî
Neşâtî (نشاطى) (?–1674) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: ﻡﺨﻠﺺ mahlas) of an Ottoman poet. He was a Sufi, or Islamic mystic, of the Mevlevî order, and his poetry is often considered exemplary of the "Indian school" (سبک هندی sebk-i hindî) of Ottoman poetry, a movement which flourished beginning in the 17th century.
Life
Template:History of Turkish Literature Though one source[1] claims that Neşâtî's real name was Süleymân (سليمان), the majority of sources give his name as Ahmed (أحمد). He was born in Edirne, in the region of Thrace. It is not known exactly when he was born, though it is speculated[2] that it was around the year 1600, on the evidence of a poem commemorating the winter of 1622, in which year the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul was known to be covered with ice:
- ن نقش گوستره آیا مشاعبيز سرما
- كى همچو آيينه يغ بسته اولدى صفحه آب
- Ne naķş göstere âyâ müşa`biz-i sermâ
- Ki hemçü âyîne yah-beste oldu safha-i âb[3]
- Oh what designs might the magician of cold
- display?
- Like a mirror, the page of the water
- is bound in ice[4]
Neşâtî first become affiliated with the Mevlevi order as a disciple of the shaykh Ağazâde Mehmed Dede, first in Gelibolu in Thrace and then in Beşiktaş in Istanbul[5]. After Ağazâde Mehmed Dede's death, Neşâtî went to Konya in central Anatolia, where he served for a time at the tomb of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi—the founder of the Mevlevi order—before finally returning, around the year 1670, to Edirne as the shaykh of the Murâdiyye Mevlevîhâne there. He died in 1674, and was buried in the courtyard of the Murâdiyye Mosque[6].
Notes
References
- Andrews, Walter G; Black, Najaat; Kalpaklı, Mehmet. Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology. ISBN 0-292-70472-0.
- Şentürk, Ahmet Atilla. "Neşâtî" in Osmanlı Şiiri Antolojisi; pp. 555–559. ISBN 975-08-0163-6.