Sheikh Izzeddin Esfarayeni (Azerbaijani: عزالدین حسن‌ اوغلو; Persian: شیخ عزالدین پورحسن اسفراینی), who wrote under the pseudonyms of Hasanoghlu and Pur-e Hasan,[1] was a 13th and 14th century poet who wrote in Azerbaijani and Persian.[2] He is the earliest known author of Azerbaijani literature.[3]

Sheikh Izzeddin Esfarayeni
Depiction of Hasanoghlu in the Nizami Museum of Azerbaijan Literature in Baku
Depiction of Hasanoghlu in the Nizami Museum of Azerbaijan Literature in Baku
Born13th century
Esfarayen, Khorasan (Modern-day Iran)
Died14th century
Pen nameHasanoghlu, Pur-e Hasan
OccupationPoet
LanguageAzerbaijani, Persian

Hasanoghlu was born in Esfarayen in the 13th century.[4] He was a student of Sheikh Jamaladdin Ahmed Zakir, the head of one of the Sufi sects.[4][5] During his lifetime, Hasanoghlu was well-known, with his fame reaching as far as Anatolia.[3] His lyrics influenced many generations of Turkic-language poets.[6] Hasanoghlu primarily composed lyric poems about love[6] that were infused with Sufi ideology.[3][5] He composed a diwan of Azerbaijani and Persian ghazals.[4] Only three of Hasanoghlu's poems have survived.[7]

Ghazal commonly called "Apardı könlümü" by Hasanoghlu which is considered the earliest known piece of literature in Azerbaijani language from the 14th century manuscript Or. 1553 "Kitab-i Gulistan bil-Turki; and other texts" [8] compiled by Seyfi Sarayi kept in the library of Leiden University

References

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  1. ^ Caferoǧlu 2012.
  2. ^ Javadi & Burrill 1988, pp. 251–255.
  3. ^ a b c Gasimova 2015, p. 106.
  4. ^ a b c Beale & Keene 1894, p. 311.
  5. ^ a b Karayev 1964, p. 81.
  6. ^ a b Great Soviet Encyclopaedia 1960.
  7. ^ Heß 2015.
  8. ^ Flemming 2018, p. 73, "The Turkish poem bearing the taḫalluṣ Ḥasan oġlï, which according to general consensus belongs to Şayḫ ʿIzzed-dīn Asfarāʾinī, has been preserved in an appendix to Sayf-i Sarāyī’s Turkish translation of Saʿdī’s Gulistān, which was completed in Egypt in 1391 and has survived in a single manuscript written in that country".

Literature

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  • Javadi, H.; Burrill, K. (1988). "AZERBAIJAN x. Azeri Turkish Literature". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. III/3: Azerbaijan IV–Bačča(-ye) Saqqā. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 251–255. ISBN 978-0-71009-115-4.
  • Caferoǧlu, A. (2012). "Ād̲h̲arī (Azerī)". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
  • Heß, Michael R (2015). "Azerbaijani literature". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
  • Gasimova, Aida (2015). "Qurʾānic Symbolism of the Eyes in Classical Azeri Turkic Poetry". Oriens. 43 (1/2): 101–153. doi:10.1163/18778372-04301005. ISSN 0078-6527.
  • "Гасаноглы Иззеддин" [Hasanoghlu Izzeddin]. Great Soviet Encyclopaedia (in Russian). Vol. 1. 1960.
  • Karayev, Y. (1964). "ГАСАНОГЛЫ́" [HASANOGHLU]. Concise Literary Encyclopedia (in Russian). Vol. 2. Moscow. p. 81.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Beale, Thomas William; Keene, Henry George (1894). An Oriental Biographical Dictionary. W.H. Allen.
  • Flemming, Barbara (2018). Essays on Turkish Literature and History. Brill.