MUNAJAT AS A GENRE AND THE ANALYSIS OF İBRAHİM ŞİNÂSÎ EFENDİ'S 'MUNAJAT' (INVOCATIONS)

Journal Title: The Journal of International Social Research - Year 2016, Vol 9, Issue 43

Abstract

İbrahim Şinasi Efendi (1826-1871) is one of poets of first generation of Tanzimat period. Turkish poetry begins to change from the aspect of the form and content in the Tanzimat literature. This examples of change is be seen in the poetries of Şinasi, especially in the qasidas and Munajat (Invocations / Supplications) that he composed on Reşid Pasha (1798-1858) as in other poets of preiod. In Şinasi’s Munajat, have the effects of both Islamic civilization and culture in which he lived and the writers and thinkers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu and Auguste Comte from the 18th and 19th century French writers and philosophers. In this article, firstly it has been given the knowledges on the ‘munajat’ as a genre, and then,it has been widely taken and analyzed Şinasi’s Munajat consisting of twenty couplets from the literary point of view.

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Adem ÇALIŞKAN

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  • EP ID EP250674
  • DOI 10.17719/jisr.20164317593
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Adem ÇALIŞKAN (2016). MUNAJAT AS A GENRE AND THE ANALYSIS OF İBRAHİM ŞİNÂSÎ EFENDİ'S 'MUNAJAT' (INVOCATIONS). The Journal of International Social Research, 9(43), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-250674