A Work That Prepared for The Purpose of Teaching Persian to Turks: Tuhfat al-Ushaq (Tuhfetu’l-‘Uşşâk)
Nüsha, vol.18, no.46, pp.1-14, 2018 (TRDizin)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 18 Issue: 46
- Publication Date: 2018
- Journal Name: Nüsha
- Journal Indexes: TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Page Numbers: pp.1-14
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Affiliated: No
Abstract
After the conquest of the Seljuk sultans to Anatolia and the establishment
of the Anatolian Seljuk State, the Persian language was moved to this land;
also through migrations of poets and scholars, on the other side it continued its
existance as a literary language and was used as an educational language. The
preparation of Arabic-Persian dictionaries in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries indicates that at that time in the some of madrasah the language of
education was Persian. Although the Persian language started to be forgotten,
it has gained widespread popularity among poets and scholars. In the late of
fourteenth century teaching and learning Persian become a necessity. Those
who are engaged in teaching and learning, those who have knowledge of
Persian; have found it necessary to write a dictionary explain in Turkish and a
grammar book. Thus, from the beginning of the fifteenth century, it has been
started to be written Persian-Turkish dictionaries. The Turkish-language
dictionary authors have also mantioned grammar topics in their dictionaries;
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those who have knowlegde of Persian, have written independent treatises
which include grammatical bases, and those who have verse ability processed
these rules as verse. Persian speech guides was also prepared separately from
the dictionary and grammar books. One of these books is Tuhfetu’l-‘Uşşâk. In
this article, the historical perspective of teaching Persian language in Anatolia
will be mantioned; Tuhfat al-Ushaq (Tuhfetu’l-‘Uşşâk) which is thought to be the first work in
the form of a conversation guide for teaching Persian in fifteenth century will
be introduced.