Özet:

Talisman is an appication made with different objects and prayers. İn the talisman, human beings aim to achieve their goals with the help of supernatural powers. These purpose are sometimes seen as acquiring property, sometimes being sure of the feared things, sometimes meeting a lover and sometimes harming another person. The work that constitutes the subject of our study is the talisman book written in Ottoman Turkish in the 16th century. The work is digitally registed at the Eberhard Karls University Library in Tübingen at 10.20345/digitue.25585. The work contains the following prayers for the talisman: dua-yı bozorg, dua-yı karsiyya, dua-yı azam, dua-yı şerifi’l-mübarek, dua-yı sürh-i bad, dua-yı Muhammet, duaü’n-necat mine’n-nar. In the work, the information about why and how the talismans should be applied is written in a simple language that the public can understand. The names of diseases in the work, the names of tools used in making talismans, religious terms offer a rich vocabulary to researchers In addition, the work can be a source for different scientific fields such as theology, sociology and folklore. As a result of the examination, 790 headwords/word group were identified in this work written for the public and it was observed that 430 of them were Turkisch.

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