Hamd Allah Hamdi
Ḥamd Allāh Ḥamdī | |
|---|---|
| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 853 AH/1449 CE |
| Died | c. 909 AH/1503 CE |
| Notable work(s) | Yūsuf ve Zuleyk̲h̲ā |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam, Sunni |
| Denomination | Sunni |
Ḥamd Allāh Ḥamdī (born Göynük 853 AH/1449 CE, died Göynük 909 AH/1503 CE), was a Turkish poet, born at Göynük near Bolu. He was the youngest of the twelve sons of the famous s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Ak Shams al-Din, who had succeeded Heci Bayram as the superior of the Bayramiyya. Hamdi lost his father at the age of ten. He had an unhappy childhood, which probably inspired him to write his famous Masnavi Yūsuf ve Zuleyk̲h̲ā.
In the introductory part of this work he relates that his lazy, ignorant and quarrelsome brothers ill-treated him and were jealous of him because of the great affection their father Aḳ S̲h̲ams al-Dīn showed him. “Joseph reached the extremity of his misfortunes, there is no end to my suffering” . Although he has little to nothing laudatory to say of his brothers, some of them are mentioned in the sources as outstanding ʿulemāʾ.
References
[edit](Ḥüseyn Enīsī, Menāḳib-i Aḳ S̲h̲ams al-Dīn and Tas̲h̲köprü-zāde, al-S̲h̲aḳāʾiḳ al-nuʿmāniyye , passim )..<ref>Fahi̇r İz, 'Ḥamdī, Ḥamd Allāh', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. P. Bearman and others, 2nd edn, 12 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005); {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_2668 (Yūsuf we Züleyk̲h̲ā , Istanbul, MS Üniversite T.Y. 675, fols. 11b-12a)
- 1449 births
- 1503 deaths
- Muslims from the Ottoman Empire
- 15th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
- 15th-century Muslim theologians
- 15th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire
- 16th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
- 16th-century Muslim theologians
- 16th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire
- Ottoman Sufis
- Turkish Sufis
- Male poets from the Ottoman Empire