Fitnat Hanım
Zübeyde | |
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Born | Istanbul, Turkey |
Died | 1780 İstanbul |
Pen name | Fitnat |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Ottoman Turkish |
Fitnat Hanım (died 1780) was the pen name of the
woman poet Zübeyde, "considered the most important woman poet of the Ottoman school".[1]
Biography
Her birth date is not known, but she was probably younger than her brother, who was born in 1723/4.[2]
She is known by her
Rumeli (the European portion of the Empire). He was a grandson of Feyzullah Efendi, Sheik ul-Islam under Mustafa II. However, Fitnat was a more accomplished scholar than her husband, and the marriage was not a success.[3]
Fitnat was able to be admitted to the literary circles of the era,[4] and she was known to read poems to Koca Ragıp Pasha, the grand vizier.[5] However, little is known about her later years. "Her story is in many respects one of stifled promise, with the nurturing latitude of the parental home reined in by the strictures of marriage and an unsympathetic mate."[4]
Some of her poems were translated to Western languages in the 19th century.[2] Muallim Naci, a well known poet of the 19th century calls her "queen of the poets".[6]
References
- ^ Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah, eds. (2006). "Fitnat-Khanim (c. 1725–1780)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages.
- ^ a b Antoloji (in Turkish)
- ISBN 9780521620956.
- ^ ISBN 9780521620956.
- ^ Turkish language and literature page Archived 2013-03-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
- ^ Turkish history page Archived 2016-09-17 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)