Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

poesia d’arte,
7–8
poesia popolare,
8
Poetic Realism movement, 94, 100
poetry: debate on aesthetics and politics 
in, 67; earliest specimens of, 4; educa-
tion of poets, 34; fi ction eclipses in 
late twentieth century, 133; folk, 
4–6, 7, 26, 29, 30–31, 71, 108–9, 133; 
free verse, 87, 92, 95; at funerals 
and memorial services, 6; future of, 
133–34; Hikmet revolutionizes, viii, 
86–87; ideological battles of late Otto-
man, 72–74; meter, form, and rhyme 
of pre-Islamic, 6; modernization 
of, 94, 95; oldest known written, 6; 
origins in Uyghur dialect, vii; Otto-
man, viii, 3, 25, 26, 29, 30–32, 34–53, 
56–57, 64–74; political role of, 64–66; 
pre-Islamic, 4–6; as prevalent method 
of expression, 3; as quintessence of 
Turkish culture, 83; of Rumi, 11–16; 
for social and ritual occasions, 6; of 
Tanzimat (Reform) Period, 65–66, 
71; 
Tekke,
26; Turkish language as 
ideally structured for, 3; in Turkish 
Republic, 83–118; of Yunus Emre, 
16–23. 
See also
Divan
literature; epics; 
lyric poetry
“Poetry Lesson” (Birsel), 100
popular culture, Ottoman, 29
postmodernism, 124, 134
post-postmodern fi ction, 124
Prince Cem, 57
printing, 63
prose: Ottoman, viii, 25, 31–33. 
See also
fi ction; literary criticism
prostration, 41
psychological fi ction, 75, 121
pure poetry, 40, 96
Püsküllüoğlu, Ali, 118
Rabelais, 59
realism: magical, 122, 135; in oral folk 
literature, 27; Poetic Realism move-
ment, 94, 100; Samipaşazade Sezai 
introduces techniques of, 75; social, 
92, 121; socialist, 113
Recaizade Ekrem, 64, 75
Reşid Pasha, 65
Rifat, Oktay, 94, 96–97, 99
rind,
47

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Index
rivayet,
57
romanticism, 64, 71, 105
“Rose” (Süreya), 107
rubai
, 35
Rubaiyat
(Rumi), 13
Ruhi of Baghdad (17 c.), 46
Ruhsatî (19 C.), 70
Rumi, Mevlana Celaleddin (13 c.), 11–16; 
arrives in Konya, 12; birth and early 
life of, 12; death of, 12; 
Divan-ı Kebir,
13; ecumenism of, 15; eight-hun-
dredth anniversary of birth of, 15; 
Mesnevi,
11–12, 13, 56; as “Mevlana,” 
13; on peace, 14–15; Persian language 
in poetry of, 15, 18; praise for, 11–12; 
on primacy of internal faith, 14; Şems 
of Tabriz as infl uence on, 12–13; Şeyh 
Galib infl uenced by, 51; son Sultan 
Veled, 26; on spiritual elevation, 14; 
universalist, humanistic vision of, 15
Saba, Ziya Osman, 113
Sabahattin Ali (20 c.), 118
Safa, Peyami, 120
sagu,
6
Sait Faik, 120–21, 122
Samipaşazade Sezai, 74–75
Saraç, Tahsin, 118
satire, 77, 78, 123, 127
Sayar, Abbas, 122
saz
poets, 27
Second Constitutional Period, 78–79
“Second New, Th
e” movement (
İkinci 
Yeni
), 101–8
Sehî (16 c.), 33
Selçuks, 11–23; culture of, 9; emergence 
of state of, 9; Konya as capital of, 12; 
wars with Byzantines, 16
Selim I, “the Grim,” Sultan, 43, 57
Selim II, “the Sot,” Sultan, 57
Selim III, Sultan, 43
Selimoğlu, Zeyyat, 121
semai,
27
Serdari (19 c.), 30–31, 70
Sergüzeşt
(Samipaşazade Sezai), 75
Servet-i Fünun,
71, 74, 75, 78–79
Sessiz Ev
(Pamuk), 125
Seyahatname
(Evliya Çelebi), viii, 32–33, 
57
Seyda, Mehmet, 121
Seyrani (19 c.), 29, 70–71
Sezer, Sennur, 117