AHMEDÎ’NİN İSKENDERNÂME’SİNDE ‘’KADIN’’

The İskendernâme masnavi of Ahmedȋ, one of the 14th century Germian companion poets, is a didactic-encyclopedic work that includes the history of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, as well as information on World history, thelogy, cosmology, astronomy, astrology, physiology and medicine. The work is the verse example of the Alexander Romance in Turkish literatüre and has also been a source for subsequent Works written on the topic. In our work, we will try to explain in what ways the concept of woman is used in the İskendernâme masnavi which has a wide range of subjects. Here, in addition to the type of lover determined by the Classical literary tradition, the presence of different women in the work the way they are expressed have guided the study. There are many different events, situations and information in Iskendernâme. However, around Alexander, who is at the center of the work, we see how the female type is shaped according to place, time and conditions.In the texts of Eastern civilizations, it is seen that women remain in the background in society and are associated with some negative characteristics. It can be inferred that this view of women continues in Iskendernāme, but Ahmedȋ gives women a different place by revealing his own opinion, especially when talking about female rulers. The main purpose is the separate and identify different types of women in the work. In line with the classification made, not all the examples incuded in the work were taken.