On Dokuzuncu Yüzyılda Kaleme Alınan İki Makâmât-ı Harîrî Tercümesi: Manastırlı Dâniş Ahmed Efendi ve Ahmed Hamdi Şirvânî’nin Makâme-i Şîrâziyye’yi Tercümelerinin Mukayesesi

Abstract

Makâmât, written by Harîrî in the 12th century, is an Arabic book consisting of fifty short stories called maqama. In the book where each maqama takes place in a different city, the maqama are named after that city. The book is written in a rhymed prose style that has been translated into many languages in full or in part. In the sources, even though it is stated that Makâmât-ı Harîrî was translated into Turkish literature after the 17th century, the oldest available translation is Tercüme-i Makâmât, written by Ahmed Hamdi Şirvânî in the 19th century. The book was published by Yahya Efendi Press in h.1290(c.e.1873/1874) is two volumes and 450 pages. At the end of the same century, another translation was written by Manastırlı Dâniş Ahmed Efendi in h.1314(c.e.1896/1897). The book's single copy was in the Turkish Manuscripts Collection of Macedonian Libraries. In this article, the translations of Makâme-i Şîrâziyye, which was the 35th maqama of Harîrî’s Makâmât, written by Şirvânî and Dâniş Ahmed Efendi was used. These translations were compared in terms of method, vocabulary, and style. In this context, the aim of this study was to analyze the similarities and differences as a result of the comparison.