ÖZTÜRK, Murat Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Öğretmenliği Bölümü, Turkey

Vizier Stories in Classical Turkish Literature within the Frame of History and Politic Books

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Politic books are works written to give advice to the sultans and the other statesmen as regards to the administration of the State. By quoting these advice and ideas, the writer/poet gives examples of some historical events and administrators who have made a mark on the mind. S/he sometimes tell congruous anectodes aimed to lead the administrators to gain experience from the historical events (circumsttances). Within classical Turkish literature in many fictional works protagonists of which are characters like sultans and viziers, the narrators give advice to the administrators by referring to historical important persons. The adventures of the heroes of the fictional world and those of the historical ones frequently resemble each other. This kind of case is also seen in several stories told in the moral works. In this article,the adventures and appearances of the types of viziers in stories written in prose and poems in classical Turkish literature are examined with a parallelism to the ideas written in the works in the form of politicbooks and similar events in history. In this way, the common bibliographical values of the works written in different disciplines in the classical period for investigations of literature and history are tried to be found out.

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politic books , mathnawi , prose story , vizier , history.

Journal Of Turkish Research Institute

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