Abstract:

Kıyâfet-name is the science that deals with making predictions and determinations about a person's morals and character by looking at his organs and physical characteristics such as hair, eyes, hands and feet. Although the existence of determinations about personality traits, taking into account the physical structure of man, dates back to ancient times, as a literary type, kıyâfet-nâme has entered Turkish literature through Arabic and Persian sources. There are many examples of kıyâfet-names in Turkish literature, in which the subjects related to making judgments about the inner world of a person based on his outer appearance are handled. In the first example of the type in Turkish literature, the reason for copyright is mentioned as knowing the points to be considered in the purchase of male servants and concubines. In the kıyâfet-names written in the following periods, it is seen that the reason for copyright is mentioned as recognizing others and treating them according to their characters in this way, enabling one to act by knowing from whom good and evil will come, knowing the secrets of creation and learning to have eternal happiness. One of the poetic examples of kıyâfet-nâme in Turkish literature belongs to Murâdî, one of the poets of the Bayezid II period. In Murâdî's Kıyâfet-nâme, the physical characteristics of human beings are evaluated in twenty chapters. It is seen that the evaluations in the work are largely similar to the Kıyâfet-names of Hamdullah Hamdî, Erzurumlu İbrahim Hakkı and Şaban-ı Sivrihisarî, which are considered to be prominent examples of kıyâfe-nâme in Turkish literature. In this article, firstly, information about the examples of kıyâfet-names in Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature was given, then Murâdî's Kıyâfet-name was examined in terms of its form and content. The work, which is compared with other prominent examples of the type in terms of the provisions it contains, was published for the first time.

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