Abstract
<jats:p>Aḥmedīs Intellectual World in the Context of the Philosophy–Literature Relationship In Ancient Greece, regarded as the birthplace of philosophy, the earliest philosophicalreligious discourses are attributed to the Homer and Hesiod. In later periods, Aristotles Rhetoric and Poetics, which were involved into his logical corpus, stand as the most evident examples of this relationship. During the Middle Ages, the fact that Islamic philosophers expressed their views on various subjects through literary genres such as poetry and novel demonstrates the close connection between these two fields. For instance, figures in Islamic thought such as Abū Alā al-Maarrī and Omar Khayyām, who articulated their ideas through verse, and Ibn Sina, who initiated the genre of the philosophical novel which is a symbolic tale with Ḥayy ibn Yaqzān, along with the vibrant continuation of this tradition in later periods, hold distinct importance in illustrating the relationship between philosophy and literature. In Ottoman thought as well, we observe that thinkers with strong literary aptitudes penned their thoughts on metaphysics, kalam, astronomy, history, logic, and many other fields in the form of poetry and mathnawi. The most significant representative of this in the 14th and 15th centuries is Aḥmedī. A versatile thinker and poet, Aḥmedī demonstrated his competence in philosophical sciences through works written in a literary style. This study addresses the question of where Turkish thought can be positioned within the context of the philosophy-literature relationship by focusing on Aḥmedī, evaluating the thinkers views across various fields. Aḥmedīs world of thought is examined across various disciplines such as Language-Literature, Philosophy, Sufism-Ethics, Religious Sciences, and History in approximately twenty distinct and valuable articles. The Introductory section includes articles titled The Philosophy-Literature Relationship, Where and How to Seek Turkish Thought, and Aḥmedīs Life and Understanding of Education. The Language-Literature section contains titles such as: Intermediate Stops in the Mathnawi: Turkish Ghazals in Aḥmedīs Jamshīd u Khurshīd Mathnawī, Three Parallels (Nazire) of Aḥmedīs Ghazal with the Redif Ey Dost in the Parwana Beg Journal, The Reason for Composition (Sebeb-i Telif) Sections in Aḥmedīs Iskandar-nāma and Other Iskandar-nāmas in Turkish Literature, and Aḥmedīs Works on the Arabic Language. The Philosophy section includes articles titled: Aḥmedīs Conception of Knowledge, Aḥmedī and the Iskandar-nāma Tradition: The Construction of Language, Wisdom, and Political Thought in the Early Ottoman Period, An Analysis of Aḥmedīs Manzûme-i Hikemiyye in the Contexts of Metaphysical and Religious Cosmology, and Aḥmedīs Approach to Natural Issues in Tarwīḥ al-arwāḥ. The Sufism-Ethics section features titles such as: Re-reading the Iskandar-nāma as a Normative Ethical Text, Sufi Language in Aḥmedī: Stages of the Self (Nefs) and Purification of the Self (Tezkiye-i Nefs), and Spiritual Diseases in the Divan of the Physician (Hekîm) and Sage (Hakîm) Poet Aḥmedī. In the Religious Sciences section, the articles include: The Issue of the Existence and Oneness of God in Aḥmedīs Iskandar-nāma, Quranic Citations in Aḥmedīs Iskandar-nāma, and Ahmedî and his Mirāj-nāma. The History section contains articles titled: The Early Ottoman Reception of the Hellenic, Persian, Islamic, and Christian Alexander Narrative Tradition: Aḥmedīs Iskandar-nāma, Witnessing History with the Iskandar-nāma: The Content of the First Poetic Dâsitân-ı Tevârih-i Mülûk-ı Âl-i Osman, and Cosmic Geography in Aḥmedīs Iskandar-nāma: The Perception of Earth and Power in the Early Ottomans. At the end of the study, a current bibliography regarding Aḥmedī is included. Keywords: The relationship between philosophy and literatüre; Turkish thought; Aḥmedī; Iskandar-nāma; Aḥmedīs Divan; Jamshid u Khurshid; Tarwīḥ al-arwāḥ; Manẓūme-i Ḥikemiyye; Dāsitān-ı Tewārīḥ-i Mulūk-ı Âl-i Othmān; Bedāyiʿus-siḥr fî ṣanāyiʿiş-şiʿr; Mirqāt al-adab; Mīzān al-adab; Mi yār al-adab; Mirāj-nāma; Knowledge; Science; Classification of Sciences; Literature; Ghazal; Poetry; Philosophy; Sufism; Ethics; Religious Sciences; Tafsir; Kalām; History; Geography; Astronomy.</jats:p>