BOŠNJAČKI PJESNIK ZEKERIJJA SUKKERI I NJEGOVA EPIGRAFIKA
BOSNIAK POET ZEKERIJJA SUKKERI AND HIS EPIGRAPHIC

Summary/Abstract: Very little data are known so far on the Bosniac poet Zekerijja Sukkeri, primarily because, until publishing of the Goelpinarly’s Catalogue it was unknown where his Divan (Collection of poetry in qualitative aruz metrics) was. In the view to clarifying his biography, in this article, we tried to develop and translate into the Bosnian language his tarihs (epigrams) starting from the first one dated 1072, to the poet’s arrival to Istanbul in 1082. In a codex which has been known and preserved so far, in which Sukkerija’s Divan was kept, 22 tarihs were preserved in total, 20 of which were written in the Turkish language, and 2 in the Persian one, 17 were created prior to the poet’s arrival and settlement in Istanbul, while 5 tarihs were created after he arrived to Istanbul. Thematically, they could be classified into tarihs on the historical events, tarihs on construction of particular objects, tarihs on growing a beard, a tarih on devastation of Sarajevo in the fire, in 1073, and tarih on the death of several Sukkrija’s contemporaries. On the basis of the tarihs dedicated to his contemporaries and country fellows such as Mustafa Katibija Chelebija, a calligrapher and a poet, Sarajevo muftija and šeih Ibrahim Bistrigija, muezzin in the Bey’s mosque, then devastation of the Sarajevo čaršija (bazaar) in the fire, than tarih dedicated to the Bosnian governor and some others, we are free to present a presumption that the author happens to stay in his homeland, more precisely, in Sarajevo.

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