Poet. He came to Konya
from Horasan in the reign of Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Alâeddin Keykubat III.
(1298- 1301). It is known that he wrote Selçuklu
Şehnamesi (The Seljuk Epic)
consisting of twenty thousand couplets written in Persian on the order
of the sultan, but as yet this book has not been found. It is understood from
his eulogy that he came from Horasan and wanted permission to return to Horasan
after presenting his work to the Sultan. With his poems written in Anatolian
Turkish he is considered to be the first representative of the poets who wrote
about love and wine beyond the limitations of mystic poetry that was dominant
in Anatolia at the time. The poems of Hoca Dehhani (in the Mecmuatü’n Nezâir
– Nezâir Collection at the Turkish Language Association Library) were first
introduced to the literary world by Prof. Fuad Köprülü (Hayat review,
issue: 1, 1926) and were published by Dr. Necdet Mansuroğlu for the first time
as Dehhani ve Manzumeleri (Dehhani
and His Poems, 1 eulogy, 9 lyric poems, 1947). Dr. Hikmet İlaydın made a more
scientific edition of this work in 1978.
