Tahsin Yazıcı (scholar)
Tahsin Yazıcı (1922 - 20 November 2002) was a Turkish literary scholar who was active in the latter half of the 20th century, when he produced his critical edition of Aflākī's Manāqib al-ʿārifīn, a hagiography of the Mevlevi Order,[1] and other major works focused on Persian mystic literature.
Tahsin Yazıcı | |
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| Born | 1922 Hoğas |
| Died | 20 November 2002 |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Known for | Literary scholarship |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Istanbul |
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Yazıcı has been described as an "eminent scholar of Persian and Arabic literatures",[2] and his editions and translations of Mevlevi texts have been called "indispensable".[3]
Early life
Yazıcı was born in Hoğas, a village near the town of Kiğı in Bingöl province, into a family of Turkish origin that had been appointed as chief state officials or motaṣarref during the Ottoman period.[4] He finishing middle school in Erzincan in 1937, and then travelled to Istanbul to attend high school.[4]
He matriculated in 1940 at the University of Istanbul, where he studied Arabic and Persian languages and literature. He graduated in October 1945, and three months later began working at the Department of Classic Oriental Languages at the Faculty of Language and History-Geography as a research assistant.[4]
In 1948, he wrote a dissertation on Ebrāhim Golšani and his Sufi order (İbrahim-i Gülşenî ve tarikâtı) for which he received a doctorate in 1949, and in 1952 was appointed an assistant professor in Arabic and Persian Languages and Literature at the Faculty of Literature.[4]
He served in the Turkish army for eighteen months in 1956–57, and when, in 1963, the Department of Arabic and Persian language and literature was split in two, he became director of Persian language and literature. During this period, he also married and had three children.[4]
Academic career
In 1955, Yazıcı wrote Abdullâh-ı Ensârî ve eserleri. He published his two-volume critical edition of Manāqib al-ʿārifīn by Šams-al-Din Aḥmad Aflāki between 1959 and 1961, which led to his promotion in 1965 as professor of Persian Language at the University of Istanbul.[4]
In 1970, he became Dean of the Faculty of Literature, and in 1981, when the university created the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures, which included the Department for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hindology and Sinology, it appointed Yazıcı its director.[4]
From 1966 until 1987, Yazıcı was also the chief editor of İslâm Ansiklopedisi, the Turkish version of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, to which he contributed more than 150 articles.[4] This work "had the dual purpose of amending Orientalist scholarship and elaborating on the Turkish contribution to Islamic tradition".[2]
Bibliography
- İbrahim-i Gülşenî ve tarikatı Ph.D. diss., Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Ankara, 1949.
- Gülşenî (-i Saruhânî), eserleri, Fatih ve II. Bayezid hakkındaki kasideleri in Fatih ve İstanbul, 2 vols., Istanbul, 1954, II, pp. 82–137.
- Abdullâh-ı Ensârî ve eserleri İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi, Istanbul, 1955.
- Fetihten sonra İstanbul’daki ilk Halvetî Şeyhleri: Çelebi Muhammed Cemâleddin, Sünbül Sinan ve Merkez Efendi İstanbul enstitüsü dergisi 2, 1956, pp. 87–113.
- Abū Saʿīd Abi’l-Hayrin Çihil Makām’ı İlâhiyat fakültesi İslâm ilimleri enstitüsü dergisi 1, 1959, pp. 1–32.
- Kalenderlere dâir yeni bir eser: Manākib-i Camāl al-Dīn-i Sāvī in Necati Lugal armağanı, Ankara, 1968, pp. 785–87.
- Mevlânâ devrinde semâ Şarkiyat mecmuası 5, 1964, pp. 135–50
- Esmāʿil Ḥākemi Vālā translation as Samāʿ dar dawra-ye Mawlānā Majalla-ye Dāneškada-ye adabiyāt wa ʿolum-e ensāni 1, Tehran, 1975, pp. 322–35.
- Taʾṯir-e Šāh-nāma dar dāstānhā-ye marbuṭ ba Ḥażrat ʿAli in Mahdi Madāyeni, ed., Šāh-nāma-ye Ferdowsi wa šokuh-e pahlavāni: mājmuʿa-ye soḵanrānihā-ye sevvomin jašn-e Ṭus Tehran, 1978, pp. 293–97.
- Ahamiyat-e Saʿdi dar emperāṭuri-e ʿOṯmāni wa johuriyat-e Torkiya in Ḏekr-e jamil-e Saʿdi III, 1985, pp. 317–28.
- XVI. yüzyılda tarikatları eleştiren bir yapıt: ‘Menâkıb-ı Hâce-i Cihân ve Netîce-i Cân’ Müslüman hippileri: Rum Abdalları ve Kalenderler Çağdaş Eleştiri 4, 1985, pp. 52-59.
- Mawlānā Jalāl-al-Din Rumi wa worud-e u ba Āsiā-ye Ṣaḡir in Malānā az didgāh-e Torkān wa Irāniān, Tehran, 1990, pp. 139–46.
- Pārsinevisān-e Āsiā-ye Ṣaḡir Tehran, 1992. Makaleler, ed. Mine Yazıcı, Istanbul, 2004 (collection of articles).
Further reading
- Šams-al-Din Aḥmad Aflāki, Manāqeb al-ʿārefin facs. ed. Tahsin Yazıcı, Ankara, 1959–61; tr. Tahsin Yazıcı as Ãriflerin menkıbeleri, 2 vols., Ankara, 1953–54, 5th ed., Ankara, 1989.
- Dāneš-nāma-ye adab-e fārsi. Adab-e fārsi dar Ānātuli va Bālkān ed. Ḥasan Anuše, VI, Tehran, 2005, pp. 908–09.
- Faridun b. Aḥmad Sepahsālār Aḥwāl-e MawlānāJalāl-al-Din Rumi tr. Tahsin Yazıcı as Mevlânâ ve etrafındakiler, Istanbul, 1977.
- Moḥyi Golšani, Manāqeb-e Ebrāhim Golšani ed. Tahsin Yazıcı, Ankara, 1982.
- Ḵāṭib-e Fāresi, Manāqeb-e Jamāl-al-Din Sāvi' ed. Tahsin Yazıcı, Ankara, 1972, 2nd ed., 1999.
- Mustafa Koç, “Prof. Dr. Tahsin Yazıcı Journal of the History of Sufism 4/1-4, 2003–04, p. 1.
- Name-i aşina/Nāmā-ye āšnā 1995, pp. 37–42.
- Nāṣer-e Ḵosrow, Rušanāʾi-nāma ed. Taḥsin Yāziji [Tahsin Yazıcı], Tehran, 1994.
- Abu’l-Qāsem Hawāzen Qošayri, Resāla-ye Qošayriya (Pers. version), tr. Tahsin Yazıcı, Istanbul, 1956; repr. as Tasavvufun ilkeleri (Risâle-i Kuşeyrî), 2 vols., Istanbul, 1978.
- M. Sadık Yiğitbaş Kiğı, Istanbul, 1950, pp. 50–53, 78–86.
- Türkiye diyanet vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi Istanbul, file no. 220459, pp. 1–15 (Yazıcı's autobiography).
References
- Arthur John Arberry (March 1962). "Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī". Islamic Studies. 1 (1): 89–105. JSTOR 20832622.
- Susan Gunasti (2019). The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: An Exegetical Tradition. Routledge. ISBN 9780429810022.
- Annemarie Schimmel (2013). "Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages". Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey. Springer Science & Business Media. 6. ISBN 9789401736497.
- Osman G. Özgüdenlı (February 20, 2009). "Yazıcı, Tahsin". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 28 September 2021.