Turkish Literature

About this eBook

Translator

Pavet de Courteille, Abel, 1821-1889

Title

Turkish Literature; Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred Traditions

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania

Subject

Turkey -- Literary collections

Category

Text

eBook-No.

56464

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56464

Release Date

January 30, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TURKISH LITERATURE
2. 2.SPECIAL INTRODUCTION
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.TURKISH FABLES — The Gardener and His Wife — The Fly — The Widow and Her Friend — The Two Young Men and the Cook — The Buffaloes and the Log — The Old Man and His Son — The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird — The Hens and the Eagles — The Pigeon and the Painting — The Lion and the Man — The Compliment to the Vezir — The Ass and the Frogs — The Tortoise and the King of Animals — The Fox and the Lion — The Farmer and His Hounds — The Bear and His Mate — The Eel and the Serpent — The Sailors in Distress — The Father and Son — The Poet and the Clown — The Shark — The Wolf, the Nurse, and the Child — The Candle — The Clown Turned First Soldier, Then Merchant — The Two Kings at War — The River and Its Source — The Hunter and His Hounds — The Fool Who Sells Wisdom — The Dicer — The Lamb and the Wolf — The Insects, the Bee, and the Ant — The Two Cocks — The Assembly of the Birds — The Fox and the Crab — The Goats and the Wolves — The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox — The Wolf and the Ass — The Fox and the Partridge — The Fox and the Sparrow — The Syrian Priest and the Young Man — The Converted Cat — The Fox and the Wolf — The Horse and His Rider — The Rose and the Butterfly — The Archer and the Trumpeter — The Wolf, the Fox, and the Shepherd’s Dog
5. 5.THE MAGISTRATES — DRAMATIS PERSONÆ — THE MAGISTRATES — ACT FIRST — ACT SECOND — ACT THIRD
6. 6.OTTOMAN POEMS — FROM THE ‘ĀSHIQ PASHA DĪWĀNI — FROM THE ISKENDER-NĀMA — FROM THE ISKENDER-NĀMA — FROM KHUSREV AND SHĪRĪN — YAZIJI-OGLU The Creation of Paradise — RUBĀ’Ī — GAZEL — FRAGMENT OF GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — FRAGMENT OF GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — FROM THE WINTER QASĪDA — FROM THE SPRING QASĪDA — FROM THE QASĪDA ON THE ACCESSION OF SULTAN BĀYEZĪD II — GAZEL — RUBĀ’ĪS — FROM THE SPRING QASĪDA — MUREBBA’ — FRAGMENT — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — ON AUTUMN — ON SPRING — ROSE TIME — FROM AN ELEGY ON SULTAN SELĪM I — FROM AN ELEGY ON ISKENDER CHELEBI — FRAGMENT — GAZEL — ON THE PROPHET MUHAMMED — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — MUSEDDES — MUKHAMMES — FROM LEYLĪ AND MEJNŪN — MEJNŪN ADDRESSES NEVFIL — MEJNŪN’S GAZEL — ZEYD’S VISION — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — FROM THE “KING AND BEGGAR” — GAZEL — QAĪSDA — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — ON AUTUMN — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — ELEGY ON SULTAN SULEYMĀN I — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — MUSEDDES — GAZEL — TO SULTAN MURĀD IV — IN REPLY TO THE PRECEDING — LUGAZ — SACHLI ZEMĀN (FORTUNE THE LONG-HAIRED) — JIHĀN BĀNŪ (LADY WORLD) — LĀ‘L-PARA (RUBY-CHIP) — ĀQ-‘ĀLEM (WHITE UNIVERSE) — MUSEDDES — GAZEL — MUNĀJĀT — MUKHAMMES — GAZEL — MUNĀJĀT — GAZEL — FAREWELL POEM — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — ON A DANCING-GIRL — GAZEL — FRAGMENT — GAZEL — THE SONG OF LOVE’S NURSE — LOVE’S SONG — GAZEL — MUSEDDES — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — DESCRIPTION OF CIRCASSIAN WOMEN — DESCRIPTION OF GREEK WOMEN — ON THE DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH IN EGYPT BY THE QAPUDAN HUSEYN PACHA — SHARQĪ — SHARQĪ — GAZEL — GAZEL — GAZEL — ON THE DEATH OF ‘ANDELĪB KHĀNIM — TAKHMĪS — SHARQĪ — GAZEL — ON A BEYT OF MAHMŪD NEDĪM PACHA — THE COUNSELS OF NABI EFENDI TO HIS SON ABOUL KHAIR — INTRODUCTION — THE COUNSELS OF NABI EFENDI — CHAPTER I — CHAPTER II Details of the Father’s Station in Life — CHAPTER III Of the Motives which Decided the Author to Write the Book of Counsels — CHAPTER IV Of the Ranks of Islam — CHAPTER V Of the First Duty of True Religion — CHAPTER VI Of the Excellence of Prayer — CHAPTER VII On the Excellence of Fasting — CHAPTER VIII Of Pilgrimage, of Sacred Journeys, and of Mount Arafat — CHAPTER IX Of the Excellence of Alms-Giving — CHAPTER X The Desirability of Knowledge — CHAPTER XI Of the Knowledge of God — CHAPTER XII Eulogy of Constantinople — CHAPTER XIII On Flight from Avidity and Avarice — CHAPTER XIV On the Bad Effects of Pleasantry and Jocularity — CHAPTER XV Of the Nobility of Generosity — CHAPTER XVI Eulogy of Good-nature — CHAPTER XVII Of Lying and of Hypocrisy — CHAPTER XVIII Forbidding the Practice of Astrology and Chiromancy — CHAPTER XIX Of the Defilement of Drunkenness — CHAPTER XX Of the Vanity of Adornment
7. 7.THE ASCENSION OF MAHOMET — INTRODUCTION — THE ASCENSION OF MAHOMET
8. 8.THE ROSE AND THE NIGHTINGALE (Gül and Bülbül) — I — II The Praise of God, the Wonders of God, and His Marvellous Works — III An Address to God’s Munificence, Holiness and Purity — IV Hymn of Praise to the Lord of Lords, to the Glory of His Creatures, and to the Prophets — V How He, the Master of Both Worlds, on the Night of His Celestial Journey Rose From the Bosom of the Earthly Multitude to the Summit of the Divine Unity — VI A Blessing on the Prophets, the Mediators of the People, with a Prayer of Intercession and a Greeting to His Companions — VII What Was the Occasion of This Poem and the Arrangement of the Narrative — VIII Praise of the Pearl of Lordship, the Heaven-great Prince, Whose Pity and Whose Purpose Extend From Heaven to Earth — IX The Beginning of the Fascinating Narrative and of the Heart-ravishing Fable — X Description of the Rose’s Beauty in Every Member — XI The Shah Provides a Teacher for His Daughter Rose — XII Morning and Evening in the Rose Garden — XIII The Attendants of the Pure Rose, and a Description of Her Noble Court Service — XIV How in the Morning the Mirror-holder of the Tender-cheeked Rose Holds the Mirror, and How the Rose is Proud of Her Beauty — XV The East Wind Finds the Nightingale, and They Discuss the Beauty of the Rose — XVI The Witty East Wind Counsels the Wandering Nightingale — XVII How the Lamenting Nightingale Comes to the Garden of the Rose — XVIII How the Nightingale Entered the Rose Garden Through the Kindly Offices of the Cypress — XIX How the Wandering Nightingale Alone in the Night Abides With His Sighs and Weeping Till Morning — XX The Sleepless Nightingale is Tormented in the Dark Night, and Mourns Aloud — XXI The Nightingale in His Amorous Pain Anxiously Addresses the Radiant Moon — XXII The Lovesick Nightingale Accosts the Risen Morning in a Clear and Fitting Manner — XXIII The Desponding Nightingale Addresses the World-adorning Sun, While His Inmost Heart Glows With Ardent Desire — XXIV The Nightingale, in His Distress, Turns From Sun and Moon and Addresses a Prayer to God — XXV The Beauteous Rose Hears the Voice of the Nightingale, and While She Feels an Inward Delight in it, She Puts on an Air of Reserve and Disdain — XXVI The Prudent Narcissus Remonstrates With the Garrulous Nightingale — XXVII The East Wind Meets the Wandering Nightingale and Brings Him Tidings From the Tender Rose — XXVIII The Soul-nurturing East Wind Takes Knowledge of the Nightingale and Sees Traces of Pity in the Beauteous Rose — XXIX Description of the Morning and of the Colloquy of the Lovely Rose With Her Nobles and Chief Men — XXX The Far-wandering Nightingale Finds No Healing for His Pain, and at Last Writes a Letter to Make Known His Plight — XXXI The Nightingale Despatches Through the Jasmine the Letter Written Out of the Fullness of His Heart — XXXII The Dainty Rose Sends Through the Tall Jasmine Sandbach an Answer to the Letter of the Distracted Nightingale — XXXIII Description of the Night and of the Reproof Which the Treacherous Hyacinth Gave in Answer to the Poor Nightingale — XXXIV The Insidious Hyacinth, Her Mind Darkened With Envy, Contrives That the Nightingale is Expelled From the Rose Garden — XXXV The Ruthless Thorn Gives Advice To the Soft-cheeked Rose — XXXVI The Hard-hearted Thorn Slanders the Lovesick Nightingale Before the Monarch of the Spring — XXXVII The Wounded Nightingale Sees the Violets, His Companions in Adversity; They Approach Each Other, and the Nightingale is Shut Up in a Cage — XXXVIII King August Appears in the East and Devastates the Earth — XXXIX King August Sends the Hot Wind With Fire to the Rose Garden — XL Samum Arrives at the Town of Rose Garden and Gives to the Monarch of Spring the Message of Fierce King August — XLI King August Sends His Son as Field Marshal to the City of Rose Garden, and the King of Spring, Unable To Oppose Him, Retires to the Heights — XLII The Monarch Spring Flees Also From the Peak of the Mountain and Disappears, and the Monarch August, in His Fury, Burns Up the City of Rose Garden — XLIII Autumn Comes From the North With the Intention of Administering the City of Rose Garden — XLV King Winter Appears in the East and Blows His Cold Blasts Over the Earth — XLVI King Winter Devastates the Rose Garden in a Snowstorm — XLVII The Monarch Spring Retires to the South to the King of the Equinox, From Whom He Asks Help, and Who Immediately Assures It to Him, and He Returns Therewith to the City of Rose Garden — XLVIII The Harbinger of Spring Gains Possession of the City of Rose Garden, Vanquishes King Winter, and Makes the Monarch of the Spring Triumphant — XLIX The Monarch Spring Mounts Upon His Throne and Makes His Residence in the City of the Rose Garden — L The Fair Rose Sends the East Wind to Cheer the Mourning Nightingale — LI The Pining Nightingale Lies in Affliction in the Cage and Turns Himself to God. The Kindly East Wind Arrives and Gives Him Information as to the Condition of Affairs — LII The Captive Nightingale Answers the Kind-hearted East Wind, Who Brings to the Pining Lover Greeting From the Radiant Rose — LIII While the Nightingale Lies a Prisoner Suffering in His Cage, the Rose Comes to Pay Him a Sick Visit, and to Learn of His Health — LIV The Lovely Rose Sends the Cheerful East Wind to the Monarch of Spring Asking Him to Free the Nightingale — LV The Gracious East Wind Brings News to the Rose Of the Nightingale’s Release — LVI Description of the Morning Feast Given by the Lovely Rose, to Which She Asks the Nightingale, and Enjoys Herself With Him in Ardent Passion And Kindness and Pure Love — LVII The Description of the Night and the Night-long Revel Amid the Sound of Trumpets and Castanets — LVIII The Happiness of the Rose and Nightingale Does Not Continue — LIX — LX
9. 9.HISTORY OF THE FORTY VEZIRS — INTRODUCTION — Trial of the Three Sons — Stratagem Greater Than Strength — The Wiles of Woman — The Search for Khizr — The Vezir and Khizr — The Sherbet-seller and the Moor — The Tailor and the Woman — Story of the Adopted Son — The King and the Vezir — The Sparrow and His Mate — The Crafty Vezir — The Three Princes and the Cadi — The Caliph and the Slave Girl — The Foolish Princes — Story of the Egyptian Prince — The Merchant’s Bequest — The King and the Vezir’s Son — The King and the Weaver — The Vicissitudes of Life — The King and the Sheykh — The King’s Remorse — Luqmān’s Device — The King and the Dervish — Mahmūd and Hasan — Story of Sultan Mahmūd — Story of the Merchant’s Son — Hasan of Basra — The Gardener and His Son — The Dervish’s Advice — The Turkman Children — A Queen’s Deceit — The Abdal and the King — The Sultan and His Traitorous Son — Conclusion

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