poetry of the Ottoman Empire, or Ottoman Divan poetry, is little known outside modern Turkey, which forms the heartland of what was once the Ottoman Empire...

of Hebrew poetry and to poetry of al-Andalus. Ottoman Divan poetry was a highly ritualized and symbolic art form. From the Persian poetry that largely...

primary streams of Ottoman written literature are poetry and prose. Poetry was by far the dominant stream. The earliest work of Ottoman historiography for...

Apart from Ottoman poetry, which was heavily influenced by Persian traditions and created a unique Ottoman style, traditional Turkish poetry features a...

Arabic, and Persian culture. As with many Ottoman Turkish art forms, the poetry produced for the Ottoman court circle had a strong influence from classical...

calligraphic art to encompass the sülüs script as well as the Nesih script. Ottoman poetry included epic-length verse but is better known for shorter forms such...

Emre. The golden age of Ottoman literature lasted from the 15th century until the 18th century and included mostly divan poetry but also some prose works...

İskender Pala (born 1958, in Turkey) is a Turkish Divan (Ottoman) Poetry Professor and author of best seller novels. He also used to write a column in...

Ottoman music (Turkish: Osmanlı müziği) or Turkish classical music (Turkish: Klasik Türk musıkîsi, or more recently Türk sanat müziği, 'Turkish art music')...

three variants of Ottoman Turkish: Fasih Türkçe فصیح تورکچه (Eloquent Turkish): the language of poetry and administration, Ottoman Turkish in its strict...

caught alive, and the person killing a Huma will die in forty days. In Ottoman poetry, the creature is often referred to as a 'bird of paradise'; early European...

centuries Ottoman poetry continued to reflect as in a glass the several phases through which that of Persia passed...[s]o the first Ottoman poets, and...

matter of scholarly dispute. From at least the Ottoman period up until the present day, Serbian epic poetry was sung accompanied by the gusle and there are...

ascendancy of lyric poetry with the consequent development of the ghazal into a major verse form, as well as the rise of mystical and Sufi poetry. This style...

translators of Ottoman poetry into English, included verses from the Zennanname in his extensive six-volume survey, A History of Ottoman Poetry. One such translation...

character, place and date of death, and quotations from poetry. The first tezkire of Ottoman literature was named Heşt Behişt (Eight Springs). It was...

The Ottoman Empire, which existed from the 14th century until the early 20th century, had a complex and varied approach to issues related to sexuality...

Orientalist Elias John Wilkinson Gibb notes in his work History of Ottoman Poetry that Akshamsaddin learned from Haji Bayram Wali during his years with...

acquainted with Muslim poets and scholars. His series of volumes on Ottoman poetry is especially noteworthy. He died 5 December 1901, aged 44 at his residence...

Latin poetry. Languages which use vowel length or intonation rather than or in addition to syllabic accents in determining meter, such as Ottoman Turkish...

the rose, a metaphor prevalent in Diwan collections of Persian and Ottoman poetry "The Nightingale and the Rose", a story in The Happy Prince and Other...

Qoyunlu. Fuzuli wrote most of his poetry during the Ottoman rule of Iraq, which is why he is also sometimes called an Ottoman poet. Throughout his life, he...

Ottoman miniature (Turkish: Osmanlı minyatürü) is a style of illustration found in Ottoman manuscripts, often depicting portraits or historic events. Its...

grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire, but most famously for the viceroy of Egypt from 1805 to 1914. It is attested in Persian poetry from the 10th century...

The Ottoman Empire era of rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina (first as a sanjak, then as an eyalet) and Herzegovina (also as a sanjak, then eyalet) lasted...

Ottoman Hungary (Hungarian: Török hódoltság, literally "the Turkish subjugation") refers to the parts of the Kingdom of Hungary that were under the rule...

centuries. The two primary streams of Ottoman literature were poetry and prose. Of the two, the Ottoman Divan poetry, a highly ritualized and symbolic art...

in the Ottoman Empire and the broader Islamic world. Mahmud I entrusted government to his viziers and spent much of his time composing poetry. The fire...

with Fuzûlî and Bâkî, to be one of the three greatest poets in the Ottoman Divan poetry tradition. It was not, however, until relatively recently that he...

present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire. The period of Ottoman rule in Greece, lasting from the mid-15th century to the...