HEGIRA AND CONCEPTS RELATED TO HEGIRA IN ISLAMIC- TURKISH LITERATURE / İSLAMÎ TÜRK EDEBİYATI’NDA HİCRET VE HİCRETLE İLGİLİ KAVRAMLAR

One of the religious resources of Islamic-Turkish literature is the books of knowledge of the prophetic biography seerah. In those seerah texts the life events of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) from his birth to his death are mentioned. Later on, these events were divided into four main sections such as the birth of the Prophet (Mawlid), the miracle of ascension (Miracname), wars of the Prophet (War Chronicles) and his miracles (Mucizename). In the course of time, these literary genres were separated from the seerah and were written by the poets. The Hegira, which is the journey of the Prophet (pbuh) together with his fellow traveller Abu Bakr from Mecca to Madinah, takes its place within the seerah, which was later on considered as a separate genre of literature and independent poems were written about it in the name of hicretname. The subject of Hegira especially found its place in Divan poetry inside the seerahs, whereas hicretnames were written as a separate literary genre other than seerah, within the course of time from Tanzimat (the time when fundamental political reforms were made in the Ottoman Empire in 1839) to our day.