Chapter 9 A Poet’s Warning: Veysî’s Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth Century
In: Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity
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Mehmet Kalpaklı
Mehmet Kalpaklı
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Abstract
In this chapter, Mehmet Kalpaklı examines a little-known poem by an Ottoman poet and intellectual Veysî (d.1628) about the breakdown of the Ottoman state and society in the seventeenth century. Veysî’s poem, as an important contribution to the Ottoman advice (nasihat) literature, also demonstrates the need to pay more attention to literary and poetic sources in Ottoman historical studies.