The Impact of Turkish Poetics in Albanian Poetry and Folk Culture

Year 2019, Volume: 25 Issue: 100, 899 - 910, 22.11.2019

Abdulla Rexhepi Nuran Malta Muhaxheri

https://doi.org/10.22559/folklor.1054

Abstract

Albanian poetry of Oriental tradition which began to emerge during the Ottoman
period, that continued throughout the twentieth century, was structured within the
schematization and poetic formulations of the Turkish tradition. The Albanian
poets of the period originally succeeded to create in Turkish, Persian and Arabic
languages, where subsequently introduced this tradition to their Albanian creativity.
Communist ideological studies had ignored, even deliberately overlooked, judging
as the poetry and culture of the national enemy. But our research argues that this
type of literature had an enormous influence in the culture and particularly in the
national Albanian literature. Thus, the Albanian poetry, created within Ottoman
poetical and aesthetic-philosophical systems, has left deep traces in Albanian
mentality and culture and has occupied an important place in the structuring
of the Albanian mentality. Our paper argues that this poetry tradition reflects
the ontological and epistemological condition of the Albanian people for many centuries, which has also penetrated deeply into the subjugation of Albanians.
The paper additionally assesses the traces that Turkish classical poetry has left in
Albanian folk culture and folk literature.

Keywords

Classical Turkish poetry, Albanian poetry, Aljamido literature, Beytejis literature, Albanian folk culture

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