A ANECDOTE TYPE STINGI HAMIT IN THE OTTOMAN LITERATURE

Abstract

Dîvan literature, which constitutes one of the written sources of folk literature, contains many folkloric elements in literary products and has played an important role in transferring our culture from the beginning to the end. Today we owe this literary knowledge to some of the topics of the public domain. In this study, an anecdote which can not be found enough information about today will be explained with the movement of Ottoman literary texts. Triggers from oral cultural products are usually described in terms of an ancestor type. In addition to world-famous jurist types such as Nasreddin Hodja, there are only certain types of jokes in certain regions. Stingy Hamit, which we have studied in the study, is one of the juridical types known in Istanbul. The only work that was done as an independent was about Fuat Köprülü (1928) and he was forgotten because he was not told today. A few lines of information about Stingy Hamit, which is not much information about the sources, is found in the work of Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali in the book named Teşrifat-nâme. According to Stingy Hamit; living in the age of Fatih, Fatih is a rich but stingy merchant who has received money from himself. Two known today are recorded in the works of Süleyman Fâik and Fâik Reşâd. In the Divan poem, Stingy Hamit emerges as an antagonist in literary texts as a symbol of his poetry. The poets, when talking about themselves, appreciating others, and most criticizing others, refer to Stingy Hamit as an element of comparison and analogy for a total of three reasons. Especially in the 16th century, it is seen that many poets placed Stingy Hamit in his poems. The Letâif of the Lâmi'î Çelebi taken in this century also contains the first known fact about Stingy Hamit. Although there is no related joke about Stingy Hamit in divan and mathnawi, many poets are regarded as a mark of his remembrance in Ottoman society.