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The Fourth International Congress of Turkology "Turkic People Through the Ages and Lands", Varşova, Poland, 20 - 23 September 2016, pp.13-14
The aim of this study is to determine and assess the importance of Kashfu’l-Huda written by Huseyn-i Harezmi in the first half of the 15th century after the conquest of Khwarezm by Abu’l-Hayr Khan. One of two known copies is located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin under the registration number Ms. or. oct. 1688. The other one is located in the Süleymaniye Library, Mahmud Paşa Collection, under the registration number 271, in the Turkish literature section. It includes commentary works to the text and other data from Eastern and Anatolian Turkish commentaries. This piece of ritual or traditional ode writing for Hz. Muhammad, Qasida-i Burda plays a very important role in the Islamic literature. Moreover, Ka'b bin Zuhayr (Qaside-i Banet Su’ad) and Busiri’s (known as Qasidatu’l-Burdati’l-Mavsumatu bi’l-Kavakibi’d-Durriyati fi Madhi Hayri’l-Bariyya or Qasidatu’l-Bur’a and Qasidatu’l-Bur’iyya particularly in the Ottoman literary area) poems are the most famous odes in this literary genre. Huseyn-i Harezmi’s Kashfu’l-Huda, which is the subject of this research paper, is a commentary to Busiri’s Qasida-i Burda. Both the writer Husayn-i Harezmi and his commentary Kashfu’l-Huda are quite unknown to Turkish language and literature researchers. In fact, Ali Şir Navayi acknowledged in Macalisu’n-Nafayis that the period from 14th to early 15th century of the Eastern Turkish literature area was strongly influenced by the Harezmiçe Turki til thanks to the writer Husayn-i Harezmi. Also Janos Eckman represented this opinion and called this term of Turkish literary period Khwarezm Turkish. Kashfu’l-Huda takes a unique place among Husayn-i Harezmi’s Turkish language literary works. This study consists of general information about Bûsîrî and Kaside-i Bürde, the reasons why it was written, the stories and rituals that have been told and annotations concerning this piece of writing. It also includes information about Hüseyn-i Hârezmî, the author of Keşfü’l-Hüdâ and explains the copyright reasons of the work and date, the copy dates of editions, its location during the time when annotations were written, as well as the writing characteristics of this work.
Key words: Harezmi, Busiri, Burda, Kashfu’l-Huda, Eastern Turkish.