Hayâlî

Hayali ( خيالى ), " the Fancy ", later hayali Bey (c. 1500 in Yenice -i Vardar, Macedonia, † 1557 in Adrian Opel, Thrace ), was the name of an Ottoman poet poet. His exact date of birth is not known, he came in the reign of Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512) to the world. Hayâlîs real name is given as Mehmed ( محمد ). He wrote his poems in the tradition of the sofa.

Life and work

As the biographer Aşık Çelebi writes, interested Mehmed already in his early youth for the works Bustan ( "The Garden of taste" ) and Gulistan ( " The Rose Garden ") of the Persian poet Saadi. During this time, the wandering Sufi dervish Baba ' Alî Mest -i' AJEM ("Father ' Alî, the drunkard from Persia " ) came to Yenice -i Vardar. Mehmed was so fascinated by him that he left his father's house and the group joined to the dervish. On the other hike taught him Baba ' Alî both in Sufism as well as in the art of poetry.

One of the top municipal judge of Istanbul Sari Gürz Noureddin Effendi, Mehmed met and found out that dealing with the dervish group around Baba ' Alî for the boy was inappropriate. He gave him a foster home with a local senior police officers, where he could continue his education and to write under the name of poet hayali began. Thus, the former Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha Makbul (1493-1536) and were in consequence Sultan Süleyman I (1494? -1566 ) Aware of the young poet. Soon he was protégé and Lieblingspoet the Sultan and accompanied him in the victory over the Knights in Rhodes ( 1522) and in the conquest of Baghdad from the Safavids ( 1534). In this campaign he should be met with the Azerbaijani poet Fuzuli. He received several honorable titles, such Melik -UES - Suara ( " Prince of Poets " ), Diyar -ı Rûm'un Sultan -ı Şuarâsı ( " Sultan of Poets in the western lands " ) and hayali -i Meshur ( " hayali the famous "). Because of this and his position the envy of other poets evoked at court, he was often the subject of lampoons.

The Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha in 1536 Makbul was deposed and executed, thereby hayali lost its most important patrons. As Ibrahim Pasha's successor Rustem Pasha (1500-1561) was a fierce opponent of courtly decadence, hayali asked for a job as a Sanjak - bey ( governor ) of a province near Adrian Opel in Thrace and led since then the title hayali Bey. He died in his Sanjak in 1557.

Edition

• Cemal Kurnaz (ed.): hayali Bey dîvânı'nın tahlili. Ankara Kurgan Edebiyat, 2012 ISBN 9789-7526-7609-1.