Abstract
Kadızâde Mehmed İlmî’s “Duânâme” in Verse for Sultan Murad IV
The subject of “prayer” has a crucial place in Turkish
culture and literature. It is seen that the subjects of
“prayer” were discussed in various methods before the
acceptance of Islam by Turks and verse, prose or verseprose
works related to the “prayer” were formed in this
period. The difference of duânâme from other forms like
“münâcât, tevbenâme, ilticânâme” is that the duânâme is
a pray for another person. There are many works which
related to this subject in Classical Turkish Literature.
Besides autonomous “duânâme”s formed in masnawi
style, there are various “duânâme”s written in other
verse forms like qasida (panegyric), ghazal and kıt’a.
İlmî’s “duanâme” is an autonomous work formed in
masnawi prose style with 107 couplets. The work was
written for Sultan Murad IV. This work, at the same
time, can be accepted as a “cülusiyye”. However, this
work has a conquest prayer characteristic which had been
written for conquest of Baghdad and Yemen
Keywords
Duânâme, Classical Turkish Literature, Kadızâde Mehmed İlmî, Sultan IV. Murad