Özet:

The discussion of superiority among flowers, animals, places, objects, and so forth in a work of art, is called debate. Debates can be found in Arabic and Persian literature as well as Turkish literature. Agâh Sırrı Levend, who is the author of Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi, reviews these kinds of works (debates) under the title, “Represantative stories through debate”. These works were classified by their subjects and contents in terms of humor; ethics, philosophy and sufic. Furthermore they were classified as pieces that contain artistic style based topics. The sixteenth century author Nidayî is the author of Menâfi‘ü’n-nâs, which is a medical book. Mübâhasât-ı Mükeyyifât, a work by Nidayî, is not mentioned in any existing sources, literary or academic. It is believed to be one of the first works emerging from Anatolia that features a debate between more than two pleasure-giving substances. The beginning and the end of the work is poetical and the other parts are prose. As a reason of writing this piece, the author mentions that he invented this joke to take sorrow away as an entertainment for those who suffer from quiting pleasurable substances/drugs. In the text, opium, barsh, hashish, boza, wine and honey argue over which of them is superior. In fact, a number of other works on the same subject involve more than two disputants, including Sıhhatî Çelebi’s Menâkıb-ı Mükeyyifât-ı Âlem and the anonymously written Muhâleme-i Mükeyyifât and Hikâyet-i Cem‘iyyet-i Mükeyyifât-ı ‘Âlem ve Mübâhase ve Mücâdele, as well as two untitled texts. These five works include additional disputants to those mentioned by Nidayî, such as coffee and tobacco. The current article introduces Nidayî’s Mübâhasât-ı Mükeyyifât, comparing it with other works on the same subject that have come to light and endeavouring to pinpoint its similarities with, and differences from these parallel texts. It also addresses the question of whether or not these works can be considered cases of “rewriting”.

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