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Şeyyad Ḥamza
Şeyyad Ḥamza (thirteenth-century CE) was mystical poet of Turkish ethnicity, particularly noted for his playwriting. Life and works The evidence for Şeyyad's life comes from sixteenth-century CE biographical scholarship, but this reveals little certain about his life. He seems to have lived most of his life around Akşehir and Sivrihisar. He supposedly had a daughter, Aṣlī Khātūn, whose tombstone was believed to be found in Akşehir.Kathleen Burrill, 'Sheyyād Ḥamza', in ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', ed. by Paul Bearman and others, 2nd edn (Ledein: Brill, 1960-2005), s.v. ''Sheyyād Ḥamza''. . The first modern scholar to study Şeyyad was Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, who published fifteen lines of a ''methnewī'' by Şeyyad which he had found in ''Jāmiʿ al-neẓāʾir'' by Egerdirli Ḥājjr Kemāl. Mehmed saw Şeyyad as typical of bāṭiniyya thought during the period of the Mongol invasions of Anatolia. Thereafter, scholarship identified a number of works by Şeyyad, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akşehir
Akşehir is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 93,965 (2022). It was known historically as Philomelium. The town is situated at the edge of a fertile plain, on the north side of the Sultan Mountains. Its elevation is . History Philomelion (Φιλομήλιον) was probably a Pergamene foundation on the great Graeco-Roman Highway from Ephesus to the east and Cicero, on his way to Cilicia, dated some of his extant correspondence there. St Paul passed the city on his second and third missionary journey in the first century and his impact can be traced by numerous Christian inscriptions in the region. The Smyrna, Smyrniotes wrote the letter that describes the martyrdom of Polycarp to the townspeople of Philomelion. The town became at some point a bishopric and remains a titular see of the Catholic Church. At some point after 1071, the city fell to the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum. It was retaken by forces of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
