Diya'i Hasan Čalabi al-Mostari
Diya'i Hasan Čalabi al-Mostari

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with an important Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet of the 16th century, Ziya'i Hasan al-Mostari (d. 992/1584/5), who wrote in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. In addition to a complete divan of poems, which is already known Ziya'i also wrote two longer poems (mesnevi) hitherto unknown, namely- "Qissa-i šayh '.Abd ur-Razzak«, which represents a poetic version of an old story whose hero is šayh. 'Abd ur-Razzak, also calleg šayh. San'an, and »Verkah-u Gulšah«, also a love poem. Ziya'l is an outstanding lyric who sings of love, although unhappy, and about woman and her beauty. As an ideal subject of poets, woman irs full of virtue and purity and the poet always keeps her at a respectable distance. Ziya'i is a poet of strong feelings, w!hose lyrical nature is particularly expressed in the gazel, which can be noted in the several poems that we have presented in this article, both in the original and in translation.

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