RumeliDE Journal of Language and Literature Studies

Abstract

Cahiliye Age‘s poem kaside is the first and the
most radical verse type of Arabic Poetry,has rooted till the 5th century BC
which consists of the most brillant age of Arabic Literature.Kaside has
experienced so many changes until it takes place into our literature by
starting from its first samples called Muallakat. The Arabic literature has
gotten into a new turning point due to the ayahs revealed from God to the
Prophet Muhammad at the onset of the seventh century. During this period almost
every phase of life has been re-organized and the qasida, written for a
definite purpose,  has been assigned to
praise the prophet Mohammad. Since then, many literary works, within the
tradition of writing in verse telling about the prophet Mohammad,  reach the climax of lyricism. Kaside-i Bürde
and Kaside-i Bür'es are the leading works that tell about the Prophet and have
the most interest in the community. Altough people call Ka‛b b. Züheyr’s poem,
inspired by mantle of the Prophet and bestowed to him by the Prophet, and to
Busîrî’s poem, inspired by his recovery, getting out of his trobles with the
joy of dreaming the Prophet, the Kaside-i Bürde; these qasidas are known as
Kaside-i Bürde in literature. This work of Busîrî affecting the
literature leading to a new kind to be created called Bedîiyyât has many
translations, paraphrases and tahmises, most of which is in arabic. This study
is one of Esâsî’s these translations. There is almost no infomation about Esâsî
in biographies. A couple of sources define him as the eighteenth century
Ottoman poet, a madrassah member; but these are just guesses. Although we can
not answer many questions about him, we can say that it is higly probable that
Esâsî is the pseudonym of the poet who was a well educated scholar and he knew
Arabic and Persian so well that he could even make translations in these
languages. Esâsî, just like other poets, impressed by the Prophet that inspired
our literature both as a human being and a Prophet as well, revealed his love
of the Prophet through his translation of Kaside-i Bürde, and he helped our
religious and sufi literature develop. Our study aims to give a little
information about Esâsî, which is not mentioned in his tezkires, and to present
his Kaside-i BürdeTranslation in his book, where he collects the
interpretations and translations written by Hafız Hüseyin b. Ali Buss Busîrî
and the interpretations and translations written to him.