TOBACCO SMOKING IN DIVAN POEM AND EBULMEYAMİN EFENDİ, THE CHIEF RELIGIOUS OFFICIAL, WHO DIED OF SMOKING Cover Image

DİVAN ŞİİRİNDE TÜTÜN KULLANIMI VE YAPRAK TÜTÜN İÇMEKTEN DOLAYI HAYATINI KAYBEDEN ŞEYHÜLİSLAM EBULMEYÂMİN MUSTAFA EFENDİ
TOBACCO SMOKING IN DIVAN POEM AND EBULMEYAMİN EFENDİ, THE CHIEF RELIGIOUS OFFICIAL, WHO DIED OF SMOKING

Author(s): H. Ibrahim Okatan
Subject(s): Cultural history, Poetry, Turkish Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Social development, Substance abuse and addiction, Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture, The Ottoman Empire, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Tobacco; Tobacco Smoking; Ottoman Poem; Şeyhülislam Ebulmeyâmin Mustafa Efendi;

Summary/Abstract: This article examines tobacco and tobacco smoking in the Ottoman Time. There was a continuing debate about whether or not tobacco smoking was allowed in Islam. It is interesting to see that tobacco smoking increased. During that time another issue was that careless smoking caused fire and threatened public order in Istanbul. As a result of this, the State prohibited smoking tobacco by law. This restriction was implemented strictly and those who did not obey the law were punished severely, including the death penalty. In the Ottoman poem, tobacco smoking was worked out extensively. This article reviewed 250 Divan Poems on tobacco and tobacco consumption. These poems were categorised by two groups: The firs group reviews the comfort of tobacco smoking. The second group looks at the prohibition of tobacco smoking. In this study, special focus was paid attention on the life and poems of Şeyhülislam Ebulmeyâmin Mustafa Efendi, the Chief religious official in the Ottoman Empire, who was known as died of tobacco smoking. The debate about the effect of tobacco smoking on health and the view of Islam on tobacco smoking is seen widely in Ottoman Poem.

  • Issue Year: 8/2016
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 230-257
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Turkish
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