The Residential Areas and Diyarbakır in Nabi's Munshaat
NÂBÎ’NİN MÜNŞE’ÂT’INDA YERLEŞİM YERLERİ ve DİYARBAKIR

Author : Adnan OKTAY
Number of pages : 177-207.

Abstract

Nabi is known the greatest representative of the gnostic (hikemî) style in Divan literature tradition. New studies will be provided for understanding him in a better way. Nabi who is the writer of Munsha'at which is almost resembling a corpus owns an école in Divan literature. It is fairly new as a whole studying about Nabi’s works in science world.Nabi's work named Munsha'at has been prepared and completed as a doctorate thesis. In this article it has been studied and tried to search the marks of the settlement areas and especially Diyarbakir city according to Munsha'at. Thus it will be understood what Nabi understands from the city in addition to the expectations from the residential areas /cities. The following statement was used to commend Diyarbakir city in Munsha'at: Diyarbakir was called “little Istanbul” in earlier times. The reason of this statement has been understood in your time. This statement also shows the importance of Diyarbakir city which used with Istanbul in the same sentence according to poet or also for this period.Nabi explained some of his friends, fellows, and familiar persons in letters of his Munsha'at. These persons’ inhabited places are also necessarily mentioned in related letters. The mentioned places gain the meaning according to characteristics of the persons who have received the letters. Thus Nabi’s approaches about the human / person arise in space. The space gains the meaning according to the persons who are continuing their life there. The person or persons who live with poor character in a residential area has been criticized by Nabi. In such a situation, Nabi prefers his choises in favor of space where people live in.The space is so valuable for Nabi. He thinks sometimes that the human causes irregularity in residential area. But the human who causes this chaos is most effective element to enter in an order again.

Keywords

Nabi, Munsha'at, Istanbul, Divan literature, city, space, residential area

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