The Fatwas in verse in Ottoman and its literary values


Fatwa is the strange response from muftis and sheikulislam to complicated issues which are asked to them. İn ottoman,129 sheikhulislam served during five centuries and their fatwas have been the most referenced sources in complicated issues.Among these fetwas are the fetwas which were given poetic too and they have been found remarkable. Now that these fetwas were written from sheikhulislam poets who are good at kalam and writing,they are different from the other fatwas as shape and content and they are found artful too. İn poetic fatwas, literary arts are added to sentences too which are chosen carefully and elaborately on account of rhyme and prosody. In this article, literary feauture and value of these Fatwas will be examined.


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Fatwa, fatwas in verse, shaykh al-Islam, literary art.

Author : Muhittin ELİAÇIK
Number of pages: 41-56
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.3088
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