CITY HISTORY AND CONTEXT OF WITNESSING THE HISTORY LEBIB’S ISOPSEPHY
ŞEHİR TARİHİ VE TARİHE TANIKLIK BAĞLAMINDA LEBÎB’İN TARİHLERİ

Author : Kenan BOZKURT
Number of pages : 210-229

Abstract

In Islamic culture, the art of showing the history of a significant event by making use of the numerical equivalent of the letters in Abjad numerals which is suggested by a word, phrase, verse or a couplet is called “isopsephy”. While, on the one hand, isopsephy gains a literary quality in the hands of poets, it also witnesses the history as it is based on dating. Many historic events, architectural works, birthes and deathes are transferred to the future. Through the dates coming from the pen of poets. It is inevitable that history is more closely related to literature as it is about human actions that pass through the societies, disasters, wars and peace. While history presents chronicles directly to us, literature illuminates many of its dark spots in the eyes of a writer. Literature is of primary importance in determining the history of a period from a history-based, maritime or chronological point of view, the life style, events, social fluctuations of that turn. In this paper, our purpose is to give some information about construction studies within the borders of Diyarbakır province and two rebellions which took place in the city of Diyarbakır as well as Baba Suleiman Pasha revolt, Bânûkî (Panukî) and Yezidî tribal revolts, all of which came about at the time of some governors of Diyarbakır in the 18th century, with reference to the isopsephy in the Diwan of Lebîb the poet.

Keywords

Art of Isopsephy, Lebîb, City History, Diyarbakir, Construction Studies, Historical Events.

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