ACCORDING TO BY KUTADGU BİLİG
KUTADGU BİLİG’E GÖRE ŞAİRLER

Author : Ünal KALAYCI
Number of pages : 432-441

Abstract

Karahanlılar which is known as the first Turkish government accepting Islam religion changed their ideas and literature understanding with this new religion. Kutadgu Bilig as the first work of this term is groundbreaking both in terms of formation and its contents. It took attention in that it was written in mesnevi form, it was a political book with allegory and it included about three thousand words and the poet had deep knowledge. In spite of a long time, its contents kept its importance which kept the work popular. The work describes the government administration by dialogues. In one part of the work, it describes how administrative officers should treat to different occupation groups and social groups. In the second part of this study, the poets which were among the occupation groups mentioned in the work were studied. The purpose of the study is to reveal the perspective of Yusuf has Hacip and era on poets. The study is based on the examination of eight couplets from 4392 to 4399 in the Kutadgu Bilig, translated by Reşit Rahmeti Arat into contemporary Turkish. Under an independent heading, Yusuf Has Hacip argues how administrators should relate to poets. It is possible to identify the place and the effect of the poets in the society at that time and to compare them with the different periods from the expression in these couplets. In the chapter that Yusuf Has Hcip gives advice to the state administrators, he uses extreme expressions such as “İf you want to be safe from there critism, give poets what they want.”

Keywords

Kutadgu Bilig, Yusuf Has Hacip, professions, poets, relationship with the poets.

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