An Essay Of Bibliography About The Studies On A Specific Genre Of Poem Named ‘Şehrengiz’ In The Classical Ottoman Poetry

In a general sense, the poems about the beauties and beautiful people of a city are called ‘şehrengiz’. Those beautiful ones are mostly – except from the work of Azîzî, written for Istanbul – the men who are the craftsmen and also distinguished people in the public. The early samples of this kind of poems, in the first half of the 16th century, are the works written for Edirne by Mesîhî and Zâtî. Following those samples, many other works were written about different cities by various poets. In this paper, the studies about the genre of şehrengiz in the Classical Ottoman Poetry are discussed and listed alphabetically under the tittles of ‘Books, Thesis, Articles, Encyclopedic Topics and the Symposium Papers.

Keywords

The Classical Ottoman Poetry, Şehrengiz (poems about a certain city), Sehrâsûb, Masnavi, Bibliograph