H. 1292/M. 1875-76 TARİHLİ TAŞ BASKI BİR MEYVELER MÜNAZARASI: AHMED HAYRET-İ DAĞISTÂNÎ’NİN FEVÂKİHÜ’L-KULÛB’U
A LITHOGRAPH ABOUT DISCUSSIONS ON THE FRUITS DATED TO 1875-76: THE FEVÂKİHÜ’L-KULÛB OF AHMED HAYRET-İ DAĞISTÂNÎ

Summary/Abstract: Literary debate, which can be defined as each of the opposite entities or concepts trying to prove its superiority over the other with some claims, examples and evidence, is a genre frequently seen in Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Aramaic, Syriac, Arab, Persian and Turkish literatures. Among the most original and remarkable examples of this genre, which has a very old history, in Turkish literature are the fruit debates in which fruits try to claim and prove their superiority over each other with the help of identification and intact arts. The lithograph Fevâkihü'l-Kulûb dated 1875-76, which is the subject of this article, is such a debate. Fevâkihü'l-Kulûb, which was written in the form of mef'ûlü mefâilün feûlü and in masnavi verse, by Ahmed Hayret-i Dağistani, one of the important representatives of the minstrel epic genre in the nineteenth century; 24 fruits consisting of plum, strawberry, cherry, cherry, peach, apricot, apple, pear, quince, pomegranate, citrus, orange, lemon, grape, hazelnut, walnut, chestnut, almond, pistachio, mulberry, jujube, fig and date It is a fruit debate in which they engage in a struggle for supremacy in a garden in the spring and the date palm wins at the end of this struggle.

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