El-müellifûn el-osmâniyyûn

Abstract

<jats:p>The Ottoman Authors, written by Bursalı Mehmed Tahir, is a biographical work consisting of three volumes. From the 14th century, when the Ottoman Empire was founded, to the 20th century, the lives and works of a large number of authors are described in this work. The first volume of the work was published in Istanbul in 1915, followed by the first part of the second volume in 1920 and the second part of the same volume in 1922. A year before the work’s author's death, the third and final volume was published in 1924. The 1691 members of the biographical author cadre are classified according to a particular category. The first volume is divided into two sections, "Maşayih" and "Ulema." The authors whose biographies are listed alphabetically in each chapter are observed to be presented in chronological order. The second volume of the work is entirely dedicated to poets and writers. Numerous biographical sources other than the translations and addendums of Şakayk, particularly tezkires, are evidently widely used. The third volume includes four chapters: "Müverrihîn-i Osmâniyye" "Etıbbâ" "Riyâziyyûn", and "Coğrafiyyûn." In this volume, the chapter titled "Geography" does not elaborate on the lives of the authors, but rather provides a list of geography literature. The printing of the final volume is an outcome of the author's determination to see the work through despite the financial and moral difficulties he encountered. A number of factors that are normally not considered during translation were taken into account while rendering of the work in your hands into Arabic. First of all, the translation of the poems was not preferred in our opinion. Because translating a poem is comparable to plucking a lovely flower from its native soil and attempting to maintain its beauty in another soil. Moreover, Ottoman poetry is extremely dense, with two or three layers of meanings. They are texts in which sound/musicality is as important as the meaning and they are deeply