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Yeni Belgeler Işiğinda Abdülvehhab Ilhamî’nin Idamı Meselesi
A New Document about the Execution of Abdulvehhab Ilhamî

Author(s): Ömer Aksoy
Subject(s): Political history, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, 18th Century, 19th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Philology
Published by: Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu
Keywords: Abdulvehab İlhami; Djelaleddin Pasha; Bosnia; Ottoman Empire; the execution of Abdulvehab İlhami;

Summary/Abstract: Abdülvehab İlhamî, who lived between 1773-1821, is one of the greatest representatives of Alhamiyado literature. In addition to the poems he wrote in Bosnian, he is regarded as one of the important intellectuals of the period and the works he received in Turkish and Arabic. At the same time, İlhami, known for his mystical identity, is considered one of the prominent mysticos in public. The period when İlhamî lived was a time when the Ottoman State and Bosnia Herzegovina faced many problems in political, military and economic terms. İlhamî expressed his deficiencies in the poetry with the irritating and uncomfortable manner of the deficiencies that occurred during his period. In addition to his poetry and mystical personality, he was engraved into the cultural memory of the Bosnian people who were executed by Bosnian governor Celal Pasha. The remaining parts of the dark about the cause of the execution were filled in by the Bosniaks in their own imitations, and they came with a number of menus describing the execution of Ilhami. In fact, the famous satyr that he wrote for Celal Pasha was shown as the reason for this execution. The first and only historical document giving information related to the execution of Ilhami, the governor of Bosnia Celal Pasha, who was sent to Istanbul in 1821, and the reason for the incarceration of part of the execution of some of the soldiers who acted with him, related to the reasons for the killing of Ilhami.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 67
  • Page Range: 247-261
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Turkish