Prince with Daddy Issues Seeks Sisterly Support: Two Ego Documents Penned by Şehzade Korkud

Yıl 2024, Cilt: 64 Sayı: 64, 69 - 96, 29.11.2024

Nabil Al-tikriti

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1597521

Öz

Following a brief analysis of self-narrative writing among Ottoman royals towards the turn of the sixteenth century, this article argues for consideration of “collective biography” as a methodological approach before presenting two “ego-documents” by one of those royals. Şehzade Korkud (d. 1513), who left behind several small samples of self-narrative, also wrote two clear examples of ego-documents, a treatise to his father Bayezid II (d. 1512) defending his decision to go on the ḥajj, and a fearful letter to his sister Sofu Fatma (fl. 1512) seeking political guidance in the midst of a politically tense succession struggle. The treatise, Wasīlat al-aḥbāb, is summarized and analyzed here, while the letter is transliterated and translated in full.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Şehzade Korkud, Hajj, Bayezid II, Ottoman History, Sofu Fatma, Ego- Documents, Self-Narrative, Selbstzeugnis.

Kaynakça

• Korkud, Da‘wat al-nafs al-ṭāliḥa, Süleymaniye, MS Aya Sofya 1763. Korkud, Da‘wat al-nafs al-taliha, MS Gökbilgin, 423. Korkud, Ḥall ishkāl al-afkār, Süleymaniye, MS Aya Sofya 1142. Korkud, Ḥāfiẓ al-insān, Süleymaniye, MS Aya Sofya 2289. Korkud, Wasīlat al-aḥ bāb, Süleymaniye, MS Aya Sofya 3529. Korkud, Divan, Millet Ktp. MS Manzum 104.