Oriental-Islamic Literary Tradition in the Work of Hasan Ziyai Mostari: Citation in the Classic Text Cover Image

Orijentalno-islamska književna tradicija u stvaralaštvu Hasana Zijaije Mostarca: Citatnost klasičnog teksta
Oriental-Islamic Literary Tradition in the Work of Hasan Ziyai Mostari: Citation in the Classic Text

Author(s): Alena Ćatović
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Contemporary Islamic Thought, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Slavistički komitet BiH
Keywords: Citation; intertextuality; Oriental-Islamic literary tradition;

Summary/Abstract: Within the wider scope of exploring the relation between the work of Hasan Ziyai Mostari and the Oriental-Islamic literary tradition, this study begins with the analyses of the dialogue between the poetry written by the 16th century poet from Mostar and the original literary tradition it belonged to. The materials used in this study include the original manuscripts as well as the Latin alphabet transcription of both Ziyai`s Divan and Story about Sheikh Abdurrezzak. While analyzing them, we stopped and focused thoroughly on the category of intertextuality or of direct and effective appearance of one text in another, which in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish language is visible through quotations as well as allusions stemming from different fields of reference. Analysis of the presence of Oriental-Islamic literary tradition in the work of Hasan Ziyai Mostari, from the aspect of citation as a form of the intertextuality, proves the impossibility of grasping and correctly valorizing the poetry of this author, one of the earliest Bosnians to create in oriental languages, without background information on this tradition and its poetic standards.

  • Issue Year: I/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 109-117
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bosnian