The Rote of the Taqriz Genre in Biographies and Reestablishing the Ulama Circles: The Case of Emirf

Abstract

The 16th century poet Emiri belonged to a family who raised many scholars, poets and statesmen. His divans which both include Persian and Turkish poems were presented to Sultan Murad III with hope of an official post. Two different copies of his divans include 6 taqariz. The taqariz were written mostly by scholars in Istanbul. There are two tagariz present in the Palace copy, and four in the fourth divan which is a holograph. Those who wrote tagariz for Emin's works, whom we do not have any information in any biographical book of the period, allow us to have valuable knowledge about Emirrs network. By examining these texts, we can see that Ernie is dose to ulama and udaba cirdes. In addition, the statements of the muqarrizun indicate that Emiri was a known and respected person in these cirdes. In this study, it will be tried to shed light on the life and network of Emiri, based on the tagariz.