Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

Muhayyelât
(Aziz Efendi), 57
Mungan, Murathan, 117, 122
murabba
(
şarkı
), 35
musammat,
35
Museum of Innocence, Th
e
(
Masumiyet 
Müzesi
) (Pamuk), 125
Mustafa I, Sultan, 43
Mutluay, Rauf, 106, 128

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Index
Müldür, Lâle, 118
Müsameretname
(Emin Nihat), 74
My Name Is Red
(
Benim Adım Kırmızı
) 
(Pamuk), 125
mysticism: in 
Divan
poetry, 35–36; liber-
tarian, 26; on love’s torture, 41; non-
conformist function of poetry, 43, 44; 
optimism of, 19; versus orthodoxy in 
Divan
literature, 47–48; predicament 
of the mystic, 13–14; Rumi’s 
Mesn-
evi
’s synthesis of, 13; 
Tekke
literature 
fl ourishes in, 26. 
See also
Sufi sm
Nabizade Nâzım (19 c.), 75
Naci, Fethi, 128
Nailî (17 c.), 38
Naima (18 c.), 32
Nakşıdil, Empress (Aimée), 57
Nasreddin Hoca, 58, 59, 61
national anthem, 72
National Literature (Millî Edebiyat), 72
naturalism, 75
Nayır, Yaşar Nabi, 110
Nayiler,
79
Nazmi of Edirne (16 c.), 39
Necatî (16 c.), 36
Necatigil, Behçet, 100–101
Necdet, Ahmet, 118
Nedim (18 c.), 50, 51
Nef ’î (17 c.), 31–32, 47–48
neoclassicism, 85, 90, 118
Neo-Graecians (
Nev Yunaniler
), 79
neoromanticism, 105
neosurrealism, 84, 99
Nesimi (14–15 c.), 26, 47
Nesin, Aziz, 123, 126
Neşatî (17 c.), 40
Neşrî (16 c.), 32
Nev Yunaniler
(Neo-Graecians), 79
New Life, Th
e
(
Yeni Hayat
) (Pamuk), 125
newspapers, 63
“New Turkey” (Süreya), 107
Nicholson, Reynold A., 11
Nizami (15 c.), 56
Nobel Prize, ix, 119, 124, 131, 133, 134
nouvelle vague,
123
novels: as extension of poetry, 66; future 
of, 134–35; Ottoman, 74–76; poetry 
overshadowed by, 134; in Turkish 
Republic, 118–25
obscurantism, 96, 100, 102, 106
Odysseus Bound
(
Kolları Bağlı Odysseus
) 
(Anday), 99–100
Ofl azoğlu, A. Turan, 126
Oğuzcan, Ümit Yaşar, 118
Oğuzname,
5, 6, 8
Oktay, Ahmet, 92, 129
Ondokuzuncu Asır Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi
(Tanpınar), 128
On the Nomad Sea
(
Göçebe Denizin 
Üstünde
) (Anday), 99
oral literature: Âşık Veysel in tradition 
of, 108–9; early, 4–6, 9, 55–56; Otto-
man, 25, 27–28, 57–61
Orhan Veli. 
See
Kanık, Orhan Veli
Orhon, Orhan Seyfi, 84, 118
Orhon inscriptions, vii, 3
Ortaç, Yusuf Ziya, 84
Orta oyunu,
25, 31
Orthodoxies
(Ayhan), 108
Osmanzade Taib (18 c.), 46
Ottoman literature, 25–79; alienation of 
Ottoman intellectuals, 40–41; clas-
sical age of, viii; dramatic literature, 
76–78; duration of Ottoman state, 25; 
fi ction, 74–76; folk literature, 25, 26, 
27–28, 29, 30–31; folktales inspire, 
56–57; “house organ” aspect of, 44; 
Islamic fl avor of, 4; literary criti-
cism, 33–34; maturation of, viii; in 
periodization of Turkish literature, 
2; poetry, viii, 3, 25, 26, 29, 30–32, 
34–53, 56–57, 64–74; storytelling, 

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57–61; theatrical, 25, 31, 76–78; 
three main literary traditions of, 25; 
Western orientation of later, 63–79; 
women’s poetry, 48–50
ozan
, 5, 27
Ozansoy, Halit Fahri, 84, 118
Örik, Nahit Sırrı, 121
“Övgü, Ölüye” (Uyar), 104
Özakman, Turgut, 126
Özdoğru, Nüvit, 76
Özer, Adnan, 118
Özer, Kemal, 116
Özlü, Demir, 122
Özyalçıner, Adnan, 129
Pamuk, Orhan, ix, 124–25, 131, 133, 134
Parla, Jale, 129
Peçevî (17 c.), 32
Péguy, Charles, 43
Perrault, Charles, 59
Persian language: 
Divan
literature infl u-
enced by, 31, 34–35, 39; percentage 
of words in Turkish vocabulary, 134; 
pure Turkish movement and, 81; in 
Rumi’s poetry, 15, 18; Turkish intel-
lectuals absorb, 2; Turks develop taste 
for literature in, 56; Westernization 
and reaction against, 64, 71
Petrarch, 19
Pir Mahmut (14 c.), 45–46
Pir Sultan Abdal (16 c.), 26, 27