The Work of Şerh-i Dîvân-ı Urfî-i Şîrâzî of Sahhâf Ahmed Rüşdî

Abstract

Classical literature, which has a deep past, accommodates many poetic and prosaic works that are written according to pre-identified patterns. The subject of this study, Şerh-i Dîvân-ı Urfî-i Şîrâzî, was written in the 17th century by Sahhâf Ahmed Rüşdî and is a prosaic work. There have been many commentators who wrote numerous exegeses about the poems of Urfî-i Şîrâzî. One of them is the exegesis of Sahhâf Ahmed Rüşdî. Exegesis means to open or to fissure according to the dictionary definition. However, terminologically, it means that those who have better understanding over the particular topic try to explain the ambiguous and hazy expressions, in other word, they explain it at great length. Sahhâf Ahmed Rüşdî also did the same while explaining the poems of Urfî. In this study, firstly, some biographical information is given about Sahhâf Ahmed Rüşdî and Kıblelizâde Mahmut, a copyist of Şerh-i Dîvân-ı Urfî-i Şîrâzî, then Şerh-i Dîvân-ı Urfî-i Şîrâzî is introduced in detail, and finally the methodology of commentary is explained. Two odes, some gazelles and stanzas of Urfi are mentioned, and some pages from the aforementioned work and some information about Kıblelizâde Mahmut is given in attachment 1 and 2 at the end of the study. © 2020 by the Author(s).