Sanem: Farsî Verneküler Kuramlarında Mimesis

Year 2025, Issue: 9, 311 - 328, 23.10.2025

Samuel Hodgkin Translator: Cevat Sucu

https://doi.org/10.64957/nesir.1803846

Abstract

Bu makale İbrahimî polemikçi bir kavram olan putun Farsça metapoetiğin anahtar kavramı hâline geliş sürecini ortaya koyar ve yazarların ve eleştirmenlerin put edebî motifi aracılığıyla ele aldıkları poetik ve anlatı bilimsel soruları tetkik eder. Çalışma önce putların reddi ve kırılmasının İslamî teolojik ve hagiografik arka planını, ardından Farsî şiirin put kullanımları için koşulları hazırlayan sekizinci ve on birinci yüzyıllar arasındaki Doğu’daki İslamî dinî çeşitlilik ortamını ve sonunda Orta ve Doğu Asya’da ibadet tasvirlerinin kullanımına dair İbn Sînâ ve Bîrûnî’nin çağdaş felsefî düşüncelerini tespit eder. Sonrasında, onuncu ile on beşinci yüzyıllar arasında yaşamış Firdevsî, Unsurî, Nizâmî, Sa‘dî ve Câmî gibi kanonik şairlerin bazı eserleri incelenir. Son olarak, makale put figürünün Petrarkçı edebiyattaki kullanımına ilişkin bazı kısmi paralelliklere kısaca değinir.

Keywords

Putperestlik , mimesis , Farsça şiir , İslam , teşbih

Supporting Institution

Yazar, bu araştırma için herhangi bir özel finansal destek almadığını beyan eder.

Thanks

Bu çalışma Charlotte Eubanks’in ve Mayıs 2024’te Yale Üniversitesi’nde, Orta Asya Amerikan Üniversitesi sponsorluğunda Christopher Baker tarafından düzenlenen çalıştayın katılımcılarının birçok önerisinden faydalanmıştır. Ayrıca Kristof Szitar’a katkıları için özel bir teşekkür borçluyum. Bu deneme ilk olarak postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies dergisinde yayımlanmıştır. Yazar, çeviri izni için Springer Science’a teşekkür eder.

Sanam: The Idol in Persian Vernacular Theories of Mimesis

Abstract

This essay introduces the process by which the Abrahamic polemical concept of the idol became a key term for Persian metapoetics and surveys the questions in poetics and narratology that writers and critics explored through the literary motif of the idol. The piece first establishes the Abrahamic and Islamic theological-hagiographic background for the rejection and destruction of idols; the Eastern Islamic milieu of religious diversity in the period from the eighth to the eleventh century CE that set the conditions for Persian poetic uses of the idol; and the contemporaneous Islamic philosophical reflections on Central and South Asian use of devotional images by Ibn Sina and al-Biruni. It then considers a few case studies from the works of canonical poets from the tenth to the fifteenth century CE: Firdawsi, Unsuri, Nizami, Sa‘di, and Jami. Lastly, the piece briefly considers some partial parallels with the Petrarchan literary use of the figure of the idol.

Keywords

Idolatry , mimesis , Persian poetry , Islam , analogy

Supporting Institution

The author declares that no specific funding was received for this research.

Thanks

This piece benefitted from many helpful suggestions by Charlotte Eubanks and the participants of a workshop at Yale University in May 2024, organized by Christopher Baker and sponsored by the American University of Central Asia. The piece owes a special debt to the insights of Kristof Szitar. This essay was originally printed in postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies. The author thanks Springer Science for translation permissions.

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