Writer (b. 1592, Bosnia - d. 1635,
Gebze / Kocaeli). His real
name was Mehmed. He completed his
primary education in his hometown. Coming to İstanbul, he took special courses
from Kafzade Feyzullah Efendi. After working as a teacher for some time, he
worked as a Muslim judge in many places such as Gabela, Çaniçe (1614), Mostar
(1629), Yeni Pazar 1921), Elbasan (1624-1625), Banaluka (1628) and Manastır
(1632). While on campaign to Revan as a chronicler with Murad II he fell from
his horse around Gebze and died.
He was one of the two writers who gave the most
ornamented styles of Divan prose. He
wrote in a complex prose using unused or rarely used words of Arabic and
Persian. His texts are interesting in
terms of the dilemma that prose brought in that century. His examples of 50
letters in Münşeat Mecmuası (Review
of Letter Examples), in which he presented which standard words to use in
letters to be written to bureaucrats and notables and for congratulatory
messages, is an important historical document.
Perhaps his real importance is closing hamse (5 Mesnevi*s) writing which
was written in classical type made up of rhymed couplets up to that century to
prose writing.
WORKS:
Hamse
(5 Mesnevi*s, the first book Nihalistan comprises collected
stories. There are stories about
generosity, love, examples of good deeds, giving advice, goodness and
repentance in the first book. The other four books: El-Kavlü'l Müselleme Fi
Gazavati'l Mesleme-Explanation of
Theory of Gazavatname* of Mesleme , Kanûnü'r Reşad - Laws of
Reşad, Meşakü'l Uşşak-Hardness of People, İksir-i Saadet
-Elixir of Happiness, Bulak, 1839, İstanbul), Münşeât (Compositions, written 1622), El-Vasfü'l Kâmil fi Ahvali'l Veziri'l Âdil (Narrates the life of
Governor Budin Murtaza Paşa and his wars in Hungary), Horosname (Book of Horos, prose).