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Or 16124

Title:

Maktel-i Hüseyin - مقتل حسين

Scope & Content:

This volume contains an anonymously authored narrative account (dasitan) of the martyrdom of Imam Hüseyin, son of Ali and grandson of the Prophet, in 61 AH/680 CE. The text would have been recited annually on the anniversary of his death on the tenth of Muharrem.

The text opens with an exordium in praise of God and two naatlar in prose praising the Prophet Muhammad. The sources of this version of the Maktel are mentioned on f 3r, in the passage transcribed below. The text comprises numerous episodes, each of which begins with the heading 'hikaye'. Passages of verse are interspersed throughout the text. There are frequent errors of orthography. The work ends on 124r, with an additional section between 124v-128v on the death of Fatima (vefat-ı Fatıma) in the same hand and almost entirely in verse.

The present copy differs from a similar copy in Turkey’s National Library (Milli Kütüphane, 6 Mil Yz A 7944) in that it contains examples of archaic language, and also has spellings which might have facilitated easier pronunciation for storytellers.

Begins:

Besmele, Evvel Allah adını zikir edelim * kudratından sun‘ını fikir ile edelim / evvel ahir Padişah-i la yezal * Oldur […] oldur bi-zeval / Evvel Ahir-i Kerim Kar-i saz (sic) / Zahir-i batındır ol be-niyaz

Narrative begins (3r):

Raviyan-i ahbar ve nakilan-i esrar Ebu Bekir Varaḳ (sic) ve Said-i Şami ve Hüssam-ı İsfahani ve Şureyh Bağdadi ve Ebu Tâhir-i Musa raziyallah ‘anhum ecma‘in şöyle rivayet ederler: Ol vaktinkim ol Sadr-i suffa-i safa ol Mah-i kubbe-i vefa…

Final verse begins (124r):

Bunu yazdım yadigâr olmağa için * yazana gören dua kılmak için / Tengri rahmet eyleye ol kişiye * dua kıla bunu yazan kişiye / Hak Teâlâ rahmet kilsin ona * kim yazanı Fatiha birle ona …

This work was copied by İbrahim ibn-i Abdullah in 1125 AH/1713-14 CE.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 text, 128 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1713

End Date:

1714

Date Range:

1125

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

Place of Origin:

Turkey

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Thick off-white laid paper. Occasional light staining throughout owing to use; slight damp staining in places

Foliation: European, 128 ff (old foliation lacks 24). There may be a lacuna between f 1 and 2

Dimensions: 207 x 142 mm; text area around 155 x 112 mm

Pricking and Ruling: 13 lines, episode headings in red

Script: Fully vocalized nesih, inelegant but clear

Binding: Brown morocco binding with flap, covered with marbled paper, worn

Custodial History:

This volume was formerly manuscript no. 81 in the collection of Mr. C. S. Mundy.

Information About Copies:

Daşdemir based his critical edition on Milli Kütüphane, 6 Mil Yz A 7944, and also mentions the existence of a number of other similar copies: İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Kütüphanesi 19583; Milli Kütüphane 06 Mil Yz B 432, 03 Gedik 17179, and 06 Mil Yz A 8389; Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Hacı Mahmud Efendi 4724 and 4727; and Kütahya Tavşanlı Zeytinoğlu Halk Kütüphanesi 43 Ze 689/1.

Publications:

Anon, Maktel-i Hüseyin, edited by Özkan Daşdemir (Erzurum: Fenomen Yayıncılık, 2015). A copy of this work is held by the British Library (UIN: BLL01017754759).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Muslim devotional literature

Places:

Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe

Related Material:

On this genre and its development in the Ottoman period, see Şeyma Güngör, ‘Maktel-i Hüseyin,’ TDVİA (islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/maktel-i-huseyin) and the introduction to Anon, Maktel-i Hüseyin, edited by Özkan Daşdemir (Erzurum: Fenomen Yayıncılık, 2015).