A mesnevi employing characters named after celestial bodies, Hurşîd and Hâver, was written by 16th century poet Hamidi of the Murad III era. In this dissertation, the only copy of the work is translated and analyzed in ...

The existence of figurative expressions has been noticed in the Quran and hadiths, but it took centuries for the concept of trope to grow into a term. In this period, trope was seen as a stylistic feature peculiar to Arabic ...

Muslihuddin Sururi from Gelibolu, who signed many works including royalty, translation, prose and verse in 16th century Ottoman Islamic geography, dedicated himself in order to teach the literature and the religion science, ...

There are two qasidas called "Qasidat al-Burdah" in Arabic literature. The first one is the qasida starting with the sentence “Banat Suʿâd”, which Ka’b ibn Zuhayr wrote it to express his contrition after he satirized the ...