Fahri

by Flemming, Barbara

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Fahri (Fakhrī), whose full name was Fahreddin Yakub b. Muhammed (Fakhreddīn Yaʿqūb b. Muḥammed) was born in the Turkish emirate of Aydın, on the Aegean coast. He was court poet to Fahreddin İsa Bey (Fakhreddīn ʿĪsā Beg), the reigning Aydınoğlu (Aydınoghlu), who favoured him with the right to derive his pen name from his own honorific. İsa Bey was interested in Arabic and Persian and commissioned Fahri to compose for himself and his courtiers a long Turkish mesnevi (methnevī) based on Khusraw u …

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Fahri (Fakhrī), whose full name was Fahreddin Yakub b. Muhammed (Fakhreddīn Yaʿqūb b. Muḥammed) was born in the Turkish emirate of Aydın, on the Aegean coast. He was court poet to Fahreddin İsa Bey (Fakhreddīn ʿĪsā Beg), the reigning Aydınoğlu (Aydınoghlu), who favoured him with the right to derive his pen name from his own honorific. İsa Bey was interested in Arabic and Persian and commissioned Fahri to compose for himself and his courtiers a long Turkish mesnevi (methnevī) based on Khusraw u Shīrīn , the Persian mathnawī by Niẓāmī (d.

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1960

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eng Islam

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Flemming, Barbara

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