PRENSES KADRİYE HÜSEYİN VE MEHASİN-İ HAYAT İSİMLİ ESERİ

Abstract

Princess Kadriye Hüseyin is one of the important figures of Turkish Literature that developed in Egypt. The work of Princess Kadriye Hüseyin, who thinks that people should give importance to moral education and values education in order to protect cultural values and prevent corruption, is taught in a fluent style in Mehâsin-i Hayât. As in the Divan literature within the Turkish litera-ture developing in Egypt; Important figures have also been raised in the field of New Turkish literature. The most important of these personalities is undoubtedly Princess Kadriye Hüseyin. Princess Kadriye was born on January 10, 1888 in Cairo. Princess Kadriye is a member of the Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha family, whose name the Egyptians speak highly of today. This fa-mily dominated Egypt until 1952, when Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha became governor in 1805. Princess Kadriye Hüseyin witnessed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the liberation struggle of Anatolia. National Struggle in Turkey has neglected its moral and material support. Princess Kadriye Hüseyin "always saw herself as a part of Istanbul" due to her grandmother be-ing from Istanbul. Kadriye Hüseyin, who took part in the establishment and operation activities of the Hilal-i Ahmer Ladies Center, which was established within the Ottoman Hilal-i Ahmer Society, and made material and moral contributions; He wrote articles on life, people, cultural, religious and national values, spirituality, manners and manners with the consciousness of being indigenous, national and well-being. Kadriye Hüseyin has written important works such as Me-hasin-i Hayat, Temevvücât-ı Efkar, Muhadderât-ı Islam, An Important Night, My What, Letters from the Holy Ankara. Princess Kadriye Hüseyin penned the first examples of the essay in the Turkish literature that developed in Egypt, which is defined as the writings that the writer has written in a style that carries the air of speaking to himself, without making definitive judgments and without the need to prove his personal thoughts on any subject he chooses according to his own will. His work named Mehâsin-i Hayat consists of trials. In this study, information about the life, literary personality and works of Princess Kadriye Hüseyin will be given and her work consisting of essays named Mehasin-i Hayat will be introduced.