%0 Journal Article %T The Persian Imitation Gazels (Nazires) of Kanuni Sultan S¨¹leyman ¡°Muhibbi¡± (1520¨C1566) as They are Preserved in a Hitherto Unnoticed Early Copy of his Divan %A Benedek P¨¦ri %J - %D 2019 %X £¿¨¡n¨±n¨© Sul£¿¨¡n S¨¹leym¨¡n ¡°Mu£¿ibb¨©¡± (r. 1520¨C1566) was one of the most important poets in the 16th century in period that could be rightly termed the golden age of Ottoman poetry with authors like £¿ay¨¡l¨©, £¿¨¡t¨© and B¨¡£¿¨©. Most Ottoman poets in this period composed poetry in Turkish, only a few of them felt the necessity to write poems in Persian. Though the majority of the poems of Sul£¿¨¡n S¨¹leym¨¡n are in Turkish he also composed poetry in Persian. His small Persian divan was first published in 1995 by Co£¿kun Ak who based his edition on two manuscripts. One of them is preserved in the Topkap£¿ Palace Library, the other in the library of Istanbul University. The present paper besides introducing a hitherto unnoticed manuscript from Israel copied during S¨¹leym¨¡n¡¯s life that contains the Persian divan as well also aims at giving a detailed analysis of Mu£¿ibb¨©¡¯s Persian imitation poems %K £¿¨¡n¨±n¨© Sul£¿¨¡n S¨¹leym¨¡n %K Mu£¿ibb¨© %K D¨©v¨¡n-i Mu£¿ibb¨© %K gazel %K na£¿¨©re %K Fars£¿a %U http://dergipark.org.tr/asobid/issue/46311/559028