The creation of the works with the content of sirat and their transformation to the tradition

Abstract

It is known that Izzeddin Hasanoglu is the first poet to write poetry in Azerbaijani
Turkish. The first information about him was found in Devletshah Semerkandi's work titled
“Tezkiretüş-şüara”. Until now his three Turkish poems were known. One of them is the mystical
ghazal that Kipchak poet Seyfi Sarayi added to the end of the translation when he translated Sadi Şirazi's work called Gülistan, starting with the line “Apardı könlümü bir hoş kemer yüz, canfeza
dilber”. Another one is a poem that starts with the line “Aceb bilsem meni şeyda kılan kim”,
published in the work called “Mecmuetü’n-Nezair ve Camiu’n-Nezair”, and the last one is a poem
about love “Necesen gel ey yüzi ağum benüm”, which was published by Barbara Flemming. She
has found this poem by coincidence in a magazine published in Egypt. The addition of a poem by
Hasanoglu, to the end of the work translated by the Kipchak poet Seyfi Sarayi is a proof that the
Mamluk region is the place of development of the literary languages dominant in the Khwarezm
Golden Horde-Azerbaijan-Anatolia regions and that proves Izzeddin Hasanoğlu is well known in
this region as well. In fact, the first literary studies about Hasanoglu were made by the magnificent
scholar and statesman from Türkiye, Fuat Köprülü. These are the articles which titled “The oldest
Turkish-Azerbaijani poet Hasanoğlu”, published in the first issue of the magazine called “Dergâh”
in 1921, and “Notes on Azeri Literature: Hasanoğlu and Habibi”, published in the 4/1 issue of the
“Darülfünun Faculty of Literature magazine” in 1925.
The works with the content of sirat were written in masnavi style under the influence of religious
literature. Their main contents were the Islamic religion, Islamic morality and Sufism. Religious
and moral issues have played an important role in the social life of Turks since ancient times. The
masnevi “Kitabi-Siratun-Nabi” of Izzeddin Hasanoglu, who lived in the 13th century and died in
the Esfarayen region where he was born, is the first work written in this field for all Turkic
literature. The work was dedicated to the life of Prophet Muhammad.
In the article is given detailed information on the creation of the works under the name sirat and
their transformation to the tradition.