THE MAKASID AL-ALHAN VERSIONS OF MERAGI OR THE BOOKS MAY BE RENAMED? MERAGI BETWEEN TIMURID SHAH RUKH AND OTTOMAN MURAD

Abstract

The study of unknowns about the lives of heroes who represent our music history is one of the research areas of Turkish musicologists. Healthy writing of biographies depends on research results. World musicologists also made efforts in this field. Abdulkadir Maragi or Abdulkadir of Maraga, who was studied on him in Turkey since 1925 is an important figure in the history of Turkish or Eastern music. He has attracted the attention of local and foreign researchers as both music theorist and performer and the theoretical commentator. In this article is determined Makasid al-alhan one of his Works that was given a complete list of the manuscripts of it in some research books. However, all the researchers’ thought that the manuscripts of Makasid was a single work, consisting of a single composition compared to others. In fact, this research aims to reveal that not Makasid manuscripts are composed of a single composition with the comparative text method or the critical edition method. It has been determined that the critical edition method cannot be applied between Works of the same name which do not consist of a single composition. Even though Makasid manuscripts have the same name, it has been determined that they are three versions and can only be downloaded to two group versions with the critical edition method. The first group of Makasid was written for the name of Sultan Shah Rukh Timurid and second group was written for the name of Murad II Ottomani and their composition is different in ninety percent.

The study of unknowns about the lives of heroes who represent our music history is one of the research areas of Turkish musicologists. Healthy writing of biographies depends on research results. World musicologists also made efforts in this field. Abdulkadir Maragi or Abdulkadir of Maraga, who was studied on him in Turkey since 1925 is an important figure in the history of Turkish or Eastern music. He has attracted the attention of local and foreign researchers as both music theorist and performer and the theoretical commentator. In this article is determined Makasid al-alhan one of his Works that was given a complete list of the manuscripts of it in some research books. However, all the researchers’ thought that the manuscripts of Makasid was a single work, consisting of a single composition compared to others. In fact, this research aims to reveal that not Makasid manuscripts are composed of a single composition with the comparative text method or the critical edition method. It has been determined that the critical edition method cannot be applied between Works of the same name which do not consist of a single composition. Even though Makasid manuscripts have the same name, it has been determined that they are three versions and can only be downloaded to two group versions with the critical edition method. The first group of Makasid was written for the name of Sultan Shah Rukh Timurid and second group was written for the name of Murad II Ottomani and their composition is different in ninety percent.