Umut Soysal
1987 İzmir /Tire doğumlu. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Türkçe Eğitimi ABD'den Lisans (2008), DEÜ Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Eğitimi ABD'den Yüksek Lisans (2012), Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Türk Edebiyatı Bölümü'nden Doktora (2024) derecesini aldı.
İzmir'de bulunduğu süre içerisinde (2004-2010) Ege ve Dokuz Eylül Üniversiteleri'nin “Tarih-Edebiyat-İktisat” bölümlerinin derslerini takip etti. DEÜ Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi ile Ege Üniversitesi Türk Müziği Konservatuarı hocalarının “Müzik ve Sahne Sanatları” konusundaki bilgi ve görgüsünden istifade etti.
2002 yılından beri “Ney” ve “Tanbur” sazıyla ilgilenmektedir. 2002-2007 yılları arasında Merhum Neyzen Arif Biçer’in öğrencisi olmuştur.
Umut Soysal, 2010-2018 yılları arası Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü'nde çalıştı. 2018'den itibaren bu görevini Cumhurbaşkanlığı Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı, Dış İlişkiler ve Tanıtım Dairesi Başkanlığı'nda sürdürmektedir.
İzmir'de bulunduğu süre içerisinde (2004-2010) Ege ve Dokuz Eylül Üniversiteleri'nin “Tarih-Edebiyat-İktisat” bölümlerinin derslerini takip etti. DEÜ Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi ile Ege Üniversitesi Türk Müziği Konservatuarı hocalarının “Müzik ve Sahne Sanatları” konusundaki bilgi ve görgüsünden istifade etti.
2002 yılından beri “Ney” ve “Tanbur” sazıyla ilgilenmektedir. 2002-2007 yılları arasında Merhum Neyzen Arif Biçer’in öğrencisi olmuştur.
Umut Soysal, 2010-2018 yılları arası Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü'nde çalıştı. 2018'den itibaren bu görevini Cumhurbaşkanlığı Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı, Dış İlişkiler ve Tanıtım Dairesi Başkanlığı'nda sürdürmektedir.
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in terms of traceability with texts, is the Turkish literature of the Ottoman period. This
literary period, which is also called with different titles such as old Turkish literature,
classical literature, divan poetry in various theoretical texts written by researchers, is
also the name of a great literary order in terms of the practices it creates within itself.
The most important actors of this literary order are the poets who write the poems and
the patrons/patrons who are the people to whom the poems are presented. The history
of Turkish literature in the Ottoman period should be considered as the history of the
literary texts produced during the Ottoman period as well as the history of the relations
between poets and patrons. Although the existence of poets and the patrons to whom
the poems were presented is mentioned in studies on Ottoman poetry, the number of
studies on how the patronage relations between the two worked is almost non-existent.
In this study, it was tried to reveal how poets delivered their poems to patrons through
Ottoman archive documents, and the scope of the study was limited to the Tanzimat
period. In the study, it was seen that poetry presentation practices operated within a
certain system.
Abstract
History of the relations between the Ottoman State and the states and people, defined as Western Civilization and established within geographic borders known as continental Europe today, dates back to very old times. In different branches of social sciences, especially in intellectual history, one of the preliminary assumptions that social scientists agree on is that Eastern and Western civilizations are opposed to each other, but they are connected and interdependent through a system of mutual obligation as well. Despite the diversity and ambiguity of the definitions and descriptions of perception and reception of the East by the West and vice versa, the conceptual framework of how the West perceives the East is called Orientalism, which is like a rag-bag that includes all kinds of interests and curiosity about the East. So, what is Orientalism, when did it arise, how it was defined, how it was perceived, which signifieds is the semantic field of this concept fulfilled with, what nuances does an interpretation difference, if any, against this concept stem from? The answer to these questions has been the addressee of propositions that constitute an entire corpus. In this article, there is no claim to answer all of these questions. Instead, it is aimed to trace one of the activities, that constitutes the content of the definition of the concept called Orientalism claiming producing knowledge at an academic level, the eccentric story of the echo and reflection of the Lisbon 1892 International Congress of Orientalists in the Ottoman public, through the report presented by Abdurrahmân Süreyyâ Bey to the state and his life.
Key Words: Orientalism, Abdurrahman Süreyya Bey, Lisbon, International Congress of Orientalists, Sultan Abdülhamid II.
suggest that this literary era progressed in parallel with the political
developments of the time. With the proclamation of the Tanzimat Decree in
1839, the Ottomans aimed to transform into a modern state in the Western
sense. This led to the reconstruction of various institutions and organizations,
primarily the bureaucratic structure of the state, resulting in a kind of
transformation for the state itself and indirectly giving rise to political and
social opposition institutions. This literature, which encompassed these
innovative ideas and became partially politicized, was defined as Tanzimat
literature by literary historians. However, the poetic tradition of this period,
which is in continuation of the classical era, and the literary patronage
relationships have been somewhat neglected in the research on Tanzimat
literature. In this article, the literary patronage relationships, which are among
the elements connected to the classical tradition, are examined through the
lens of the year 1283 in the Hijri calendar.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIOGRAPHY
Summary
Studies on the history of Turkish literature at the academic level in our country have a very short history of one hundred years compared to the West. Although this past may seem short, it is a meaningful and appropriate expectation as a requirement of critical thinking to expect the existing literature to have gone further in terms of literary studies, when considered within the framework of the functioning logic of social sciences that complement each other and build on each other. However, both the limitations of academic knowledge and literature inherited from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic, as well as the existing perspectives and paradigms, which are methodologically rather useless compared to the West, have led to a slow pace of academic literature research in our country. In addition to the existing handicaps, the Turkish language policies of the early Republic, which first started with the alphabet in the form of a letter revolution and continued increasingly in the form of words and contexts as a language revolution, drew a new veil of incomprehensibility on the social science literature, especially the literature transferred from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic. The agenda of our country's academy, which deals with the classical fields of social sciences and Turkish literature, has been trying to make it ready for the use of the academic public and social scientists from different fields by transliterating the existing literature for a long time. In addition, the fact that libraries and archives could not reach a ready-to-use and recallable infrastructure in a modern sense for a long time also blocked the circulation of biographical/bibliographic information and documents about the Ottoman cultural public opinion that constituted this literature. The partially pessimistic picture, drawn to summarize the current handicaps, includes Turkish literature that developed under the influence of Islam, which is the longest period in the history of Turkish literature, as well as texts and biographies of Turkish literature under the influence of the West, which unfortunately developed with the Tanzimat. Along with Şinasi and Namık Kemal, Abdülhamid Ziyāeddin Efendi, known as Ziyā Pasha (1825-1876), is one of the leading personalities who changed the agenda of Turkish literature in terms of content, positioned literature on a socio-political plane, and created the phenomenon called public opinion through literary texts. In this article, some determinations and evaluations will be made on the life of Ziya Pasha, one of the literary agents of the Ottoman Tanzimat and the modernization period, on the documents that have not been used in academic research and examinations before. It is certain that these records about Ziya Pasha will pave the way for new determinations and evaluations regarding the political and cultural environment of the Tanzimat period, as well as Pasha.
Keywords: Tanzimat Literature, Ziya Pasha, Biography.
In this article, one of the most important figures of the historical period called Medieval and New Age in historiography; The view of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled over wide geographies such as Europe, Asia and Africa for nearly 700 years, to the phenomenon of war was tried to be discussed in the light of historical documents at first hand, and the unchanging "war system" - to put it in semiotic language - behind the repetitive war processes was tried to be analyzed. and tried to be interpreted. Again, binary oppositions, such as war and peace, which are the necessary consequences of each other, have been subjected to a different evaluation on the ethical plane. In addition, events that occurred, developed and resulted in different historical periods and different contexts; again, it is discussed together with the thought that it will help to explain the unchanging system behind the scenes - at the expense of anachronism. Because the wide geographical boundaries and the difficulty of choosing and sifting through historical events necessitate cross-sections over repetitive cases.
Key Words : Concepts History, Ottoman History, War Concept, War Concept.
Keywords: History of Literature, Ottoman Archives, Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn.
Tire şehrinin, Anadolu'da erken dönem Türk-İslam yerleşim yerlerinin önde gelenlerinden birisi olmasının çok farklı sebepleri vardır. Şehrin, İzmir limanı ile iç kesimler arasındaki ticari trafiğin önemli bir kavşak noktasında bulunması; Bizans, Roma ve antik Lidya uygarlığı gibi önemli yönetimsel deneyimler boyunca her daim kent olarak varlığını sürdürmesi; ılıman ve verimli iklimi bu sebeplerden yalnızca birkaçıdır. Sayılan altyapı özellikleri ve kent kültürünün zorunlu bir sonucu olarak şehirde fikir, sanat, düşünce bağlamında da geçmişten günümüze tarihi bir süreklilik arz eden fikir ve sanat hareketlerinin olması gayet tabidir. Antik dönem Tire fikir ve sanat hareketlerine dair gelişmeler bu yazının kapsamı dışında olmakla birlikte son dönem pek çok çalışmadan-özellikle arkeolojik keşifler ve bu keşiflere dair metin analizlerinden-anlaşıldığı kadarıyla şehirde eskiden de gelişmiş bir okuryazarlık düzeyi ve entelektüel birikim mevcuttu. Batı'ya göç eden Müslüman Türk grupların diyar-ı Rûm'a yani Anadolu'ya girmelerinden kısa bir süre sonra bugün Tire şehrinin kapladığı coğrafi sınırlarda da ilk Müslüman Türk gruplarının görülmeye başladığı, bu sosyolojik grupların zaman içerisinde siyasi teşekküllere dönüşerek Aydınoğulları Beyliği gibi tarihte özgül bir ağırlık teşkil eden ve Anadolu Beylikleri Dönemi/Devri diye bilinen devrin önemli aktörlerinden birisi olduğu da yine kültürel çevrelerin malumudur. Erken dönem Türk İslam toplumunun Rum diyarında tutunmasının ve bölge halkıyla kısa sürede kaynaşarak siyasi bir nüfuz elde etmesinin tek sebebi kılıç zoru/gücü/etkisi olmasa gerektir. Söz konusu fetih sürecini kolaylaştıran ve süreci yumuşatan diğer bir anlamlı etken, değerli tarihçi Ömer Lütfi Barkan tarafından yazılan önemli bir makalede Kolonizatör Türk Dervişleri 1 şeklinde sistematize edilen derviş grupları ve bu grupların bina/inşa ve bazen de eski kilise/ayazmalardan devşirerek ihyâ etdikleri tekke ve zaviyelerdir.
in terms of traceability with texts, is the Turkish literature of the Ottoman period. This
literary period, which is also called with different titles such as old Turkish literature,
classical literature, divan poetry in various theoretical texts written by researchers, is
also the name of a great literary order in terms of the practices it creates within itself.
The most important actors of this literary order are the poets who write the poems and
the patrons/patrons who are the people to whom the poems are presented. The history
of Turkish literature in the Ottoman period should be considered as the history of the
literary texts produced during the Ottoman period as well as the history of the relations
between poets and patrons. Although the existence of poets and the patrons to whom
the poems were presented is mentioned in studies on Ottoman poetry, the number of
studies on how the patronage relations between the two worked is almost non-existent.
In this study, it was tried to reveal how poets delivered their poems to patrons through
Ottoman archive documents, and the scope of the study was limited to the Tanzimat
period. In the study, it was seen that poetry presentation practices operated within a
certain system.
Abstract
History of the relations between the Ottoman State and the states and people, defined as Western Civilization and established within geographic borders known as continental Europe today, dates back to very old times. In different branches of social sciences, especially in intellectual history, one of the preliminary assumptions that social scientists agree on is that Eastern and Western civilizations are opposed to each other, but they are connected and interdependent through a system of mutual obligation as well. Despite the diversity and ambiguity of the definitions and descriptions of perception and reception of the East by the West and vice versa, the conceptual framework of how the West perceives the East is called Orientalism, which is like a rag-bag that includes all kinds of interests and curiosity about the East. So, what is Orientalism, when did it arise, how it was defined, how it was perceived, which signifieds is the semantic field of this concept fulfilled with, what nuances does an interpretation difference, if any, against this concept stem from? The answer to these questions has been the addressee of propositions that constitute an entire corpus. In this article, there is no claim to answer all of these questions. Instead, it is aimed to trace one of the activities, that constitutes the content of the definition of the concept called Orientalism claiming producing knowledge at an academic level, the eccentric story of the echo and reflection of the Lisbon 1892 International Congress of Orientalists in the Ottoman public, through the report presented by Abdurrahmân Süreyyâ Bey to the state and his life.
Key Words: Orientalism, Abdurrahman Süreyya Bey, Lisbon, International Congress of Orientalists, Sultan Abdülhamid II.
suggest that this literary era progressed in parallel with the political
developments of the time. With the proclamation of the Tanzimat Decree in
1839, the Ottomans aimed to transform into a modern state in the Western
sense. This led to the reconstruction of various institutions and organizations,
primarily the bureaucratic structure of the state, resulting in a kind of
transformation for the state itself and indirectly giving rise to political and
social opposition institutions. This literature, which encompassed these
innovative ideas and became partially politicized, was defined as Tanzimat
literature by literary historians. However, the poetic tradition of this period,
which is in continuation of the classical era, and the literary patronage
relationships have been somewhat neglected in the research on Tanzimat
literature. In this article, the literary patronage relationships, which are among
the elements connected to the classical tradition, are examined through the
lens of the year 1283 in the Hijri calendar.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIOGRAPHY
Summary
Studies on the history of Turkish literature at the academic level in our country have a very short history of one hundred years compared to the West. Although this past may seem short, it is a meaningful and appropriate expectation as a requirement of critical thinking to expect the existing literature to have gone further in terms of literary studies, when considered within the framework of the functioning logic of social sciences that complement each other and build on each other. However, both the limitations of academic knowledge and literature inherited from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic, as well as the existing perspectives and paradigms, which are methodologically rather useless compared to the West, have led to a slow pace of academic literature research in our country. In addition to the existing handicaps, the Turkish language policies of the early Republic, which first started with the alphabet in the form of a letter revolution and continued increasingly in the form of words and contexts as a language revolution, drew a new veil of incomprehensibility on the social science literature, especially the literature transferred from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic. The agenda of our country's academy, which deals with the classical fields of social sciences and Turkish literature, has been trying to make it ready for the use of the academic public and social scientists from different fields by transliterating the existing literature for a long time. In addition, the fact that libraries and archives could not reach a ready-to-use and recallable infrastructure in a modern sense for a long time also blocked the circulation of biographical/bibliographic information and documents about the Ottoman cultural public opinion that constituted this literature. The partially pessimistic picture, drawn to summarize the current handicaps, includes Turkish literature that developed under the influence of Islam, which is the longest period in the history of Turkish literature, as well as texts and biographies of Turkish literature under the influence of the West, which unfortunately developed with the Tanzimat. Along with Şinasi and Namık Kemal, Abdülhamid Ziyāeddin Efendi, known as Ziyā Pasha (1825-1876), is one of the leading personalities who changed the agenda of Turkish literature in terms of content, positioned literature on a socio-political plane, and created the phenomenon called public opinion through literary texts. In this article, some determinations and evaluations will be made on the life of Ziya Pasha, one of the literary agents of the Ottoman Tanzimat and the modernization period, on the documents that have not been used in academic research and examinations before. It is certain that these records about Ziya Pasha will pave the way for new determinations and evaluations regarding the political and cultural environment of the Tanzimat period, as well as Pasha.
Keywords: Tanzimat Literature, Ziya Pasha, Biography.
In this article, one of the most important figures of the historical period called Medieval and New Age in historiography; The view of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled over wide geographies such as Europe, Asia and Africa for nearly 700 years, to the phenomenon of war was tried to be discussed in the light of historical documents at first hand, and the unchanging "war system" - to put it in semiotic language - behind the repetitive war processes was tried to be analyzed. and tried to be interpreted. Again, binary oppositions, such as war and peace, which are the necessary consequences of each other, have been subjected to a different evaluation on the ethical plane. In addition, events that occurred, developed and resulted in different historical periods and different contexts; again, it is discussed together with the thought that it will help to explain the unchanging system behind the scenes - at the expense of anachronism. Because the wide geographical boundaries and the difficulty of choosing and sifting through historical events necessitate cross-sections over repetitive cases.
Key Words : Concepts History, Ottoman History, War Concept, War Concept.
Keywords: History of Literature, Ottoman Archives, Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn.
Tire şehrinin, Anadolu'da erken dönem Türk-İslam yerleşim yerlerinin önde gelenlerinden birisi olmasının çok farklı sebepleri vardır. Şehrin, İzmir limanı ile iç kesimler arasındaki ticari trafiğin önemli bir kavşak noktasında bulunması; Bizans, Roma ve antik Lidya uygarlığı gibi önemli yönetimsel deneyimler boyunca her daim kent olarak varlığını sürdürmesi; ılıman ve verimli iklimi bu sebeplerden yalnızca birkaçıdır. Sayılan altyapı özellikleri ve kent kültürünün zorunlu bir sonucu olarak şehirde fikir, sanat, düşünce bağlamında da geçmişten günümüze tarihi bir süreklilik arz eden fikir ve sanat hareketlerinin olması gayet tabidir. Antik dönem Tire fikir ve sanat hareketlerine dair gelişmeler bu yazının kapsamı dışında olmakla birlikte son dönem pek çok çalışmadan-özellikle arkeolojik keşifler ve bu keşiflere dair metin analizlerinden-anlaşıldığı kadarıyla şehirde eskiden de gelişmiş bir okuryazarlık düzeyi ve entelektüel birikim mevcuttu. Batı'ya göç eden Müslüman Türk grupların diyar-ı Rûm'a yani Anadolu'ya girmelerinden kısa bir süre sonra bugün Tire şehrinin kapladığı coğrafi sınırlarda da ilk Müslüman Türk gruplarının görülmeye başladığı, bu sosyolojik grupların zaman içerisinde siyasi teşekküllere dönüşerek Aydınoğulları Beyliği gibi tarihte özgül bir ağırlık teşkil eden ve Anadolu Beylikleri Dönemi/Devri diye bilinen devrin önemli aktörlerinden birisi olduğu da yine kültürel çevrelerin malumudur. Erken dönem Türk İslam toplumunun Rum diyarında tutunmasının ve bölge halkıyla kısa sürede kaynaşarak siyasi bir nüfuz elde etmesinin tek sebebi kılıç zoru/gücü/etkisi olmasa gerektir. Söz konusu fetih sürecini kolaylaştıran ve süreci yumuşatan diğer bir anlamlı etken, değerli tarihçi Ömer Lütfi Barkan tarafından yazılan önemli bir makalede Kolonizatör Türk Dervişleri 1 şeklinde sistematize edilen derviş grupları ve bu grupların bina/inşa ve bazen de eski kilise/ayazmalardan devşirerek ihyâ etdikleri tekke ve zaviyelerdir.
The works which have been made in our country and the world in the area of Turkish Classical Literature have focused on certain subjects and people. Many of those works are translations of Arabic letter texts to Latin letter, and other parts are consist of material observation and analyzing works made on those translated texts. Although those texts translated to Latin letter forms the vital raw materials for Turkish Classical Literature, it is necessary the comment, analyzing and explanation of literary and esthetic value of those texts.
In last century the works on those literary texts focus directly on conceptions of literary work and literature skimming from feature of literature history gradually. So all processes and methods trying to explain literary work and literature are called as “Work Based Processes”. Those processes that work forms its center in the triangle of author-work-reader are Linguistic, Semiology, Constructualism, Russian Formalism and New Criticism which many taking its sources from Linguistic and Ferdinand de Saussure.
The basic texts of Turkish Classical Literature are books named Divan which nearly all poets collected their literary fertility. There is necessity for examination of divans, and poem forms called gazel which poets produced avoiding from state-art-patronage equation in artistic and esthetic aims, for a text centered literature criticism and applications of those methods in the area of Turkish Classical Literature.
In this project from the gazels by Şeyh Gālib accepted as last highest person of Turkish Classical Literature by all literature histories, historians and critics, 50 samples were selected in the way of random, and artistic and esthetic values of them were tried to be specified in an eclectic way in the frame of text centered modern text analyzing processes and works in the area of Turkish Classical Literature.
It was aimed in this project also to make the products of Turkish Classical Literature functional in literature education and teaching for students to have an esthetic awareness. Changing literature education and teaching necessitated to observe texts containing the longest period of Turkish Classical Literature in modern ways. This kind of works will be useful for students and teachers in development of esthetic conceptions and in the course of making a literary awareness in them. Therefore there are many things that Şeyh Gālib’s gazels will tell us.
Keywords: Şeyh Gālib, Gazel, Esthetic, Education
Özet
Osmanlı Devleti, tarih sahnesinde olduğu 1300-1922 arasında, , Anadolu, Balkanlar, Doğu Avrupa, Kafkasya, Türkistan, Ortadoğu, Ege ve Akdeniz havzası gibi çok geniş coğrafi alanlarında hüküm sürmüş, daha sonra siyasi tarih sahnesinden çekilmiştir. Osmanlıların yüzyıllar boyunca hükmettiği coğrafyalara dair ürettikleri her türlü yazılı doküman, bilgi, belge ve kayıtlar ise arşivlerinde saklanmıştır. Yukarıda sayılan coğrafyalarda bugün yaşayan pek çok devlet, millet ve siyasi yapının 500-700 yıllık tarihlerinin belgelere dayalı bir şekilde yazılması, ancak bu arşivlerin incelenmesi ile mümkündür. Osmanlı Devleti'nin arşiv mirası olan Osmanlı Arşivleri, Hazįne-i Evrāk adıyla resmi olarak kurulduğu 1846 yılından günümüze, Türk ve dünya tarihçiliğinin ampirik malzeme bakımından ana merkezlerinden birisi olagelmiştir. Arşivlerin bağımsız bir kurum olarak Sultan Mecid döneminde tesis edildiği 1846 yılında günümüze ise yine 177 yıllık kurumsal bir tarih oluşmuştur ve bu kurumsal tarihin incelenmesi, tarihçilik açısından önem arz etmektedir. Bu yazıda arşiv çalışmaları tarihi hakkında yakın dönemde yayınlanmış olan "Arşivciliğimizin Yüzyılı (1846-1946)" isimli eser ele alınmış, kitabın genel olarak tarihçiliğe özel olarak da arşivcilik tarihi araştırmalarına katkısı incelenmiştir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Osmanlı Tarihi, Osmanlı Arşivleri, Arşiv, Arşivcilik.
Summary
Between 1300 and 1922, when the Ottoman Empire was on the stage of history, it ruled over very large geographical areas such as Anatolia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Turkestan, the Middle East, the Aegean and the Mediterranean basin, and then withdrew from the stage of political history. All kinds of written documents, information, documents and records produced by the Ottomans regarding the geographies they ruled for centuries are kept in their archives. Writing the 500-700-year history of many states, nations and political structures living today in the geographies listed above, based on documents, is only possible by examining these archives. The Ottoman Archives, the archival heritage of the Ottoman Empire, have been one of the main centers of Turkish and world historiography in terms of empirical material since 1846, when it was officially established under the name of Hazįne-i Evrāk. Since 1846, when the archives were established as an independent institution during the reign of Sultan Majid, an institutional history of 177 years has been formed and the examination of this institutional history is important in terms of historiography. In this article, the recently published work on the history of archive studies titled "The Century of Our Archiving (1846-1946)" is discussed, and the book's contribution to historiography in general and to archival history research in particular is examined.
Key Words: Ottoman History, Ottoman Archives, Archive, Archiving.