Şah İsmail ve Osmanlı edebiyatı (nazireler örneğinde)

The censorship of Azerbaijani literature during the Soviet period also limited the study of Azerbaijani- Ottoman literary relations. For this reason, the biographies and art of Azerbaijani poets who lived in the Ottoman Empire during the 15th-19th centuries, the literature of migration, and Azerbaijani-Ottoman literary interactions have been understudied. Written sources, especially Ottoman biographies, anthologies, and poetry collections, play a vital role in studying these relations and the place of Azerbaijani poets in the Ottoman literary environment. This study examines the parallels (nazira) that Shah Ismail Khatai drew with the poems of Ottoman poets and the reactions of Ottoman poets to his poems, based on Ottoman biographies (tazkira) and poetry collections (majmua). Two Ottoman nazira collections (Majmua-i Nezair and Pervane Bey’s Majmua) are important sources for studying the literary connections of Azerbaijani poets with Ottoman poets. These works include parallels that Shah Ismail Khatai wrote with the poems of poets such as Ahmed Pasha, Jem Sultan and Nizami, as well as responses by Ottoman poets to Khatai’s poems. The parallels drawn by Ottoman poets with Khatai’s poems reveal the place that Azerbaijani poets occupied in the Ottoman literary environment. Despite the political tensions between the Safavids and the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, literary relations seem to have continued. The parallels that Shah Ismail Khatai drew with the poems of Ottoman poets and the responses that Ottoman poets wrote to his poems prove that literary relations in this context have a feature that goes beyond borders. The aim of this study is to uncover the interaction between Ottoman and Azerbaijani literatures by assessing the literary links between the two cultures in the light of naziras and poetry collections.