Özet:

Ravzatu’l-Evzân is a work on Arabic prosody written by Mutahhar b. Ebî Tâlib-i Lârendî during the period of Ottoman Sultan Murad II. There is no information about the poet in the sources. However, according to the records of the Manuscript Institution of Turkey, apart from this work, he also has an Arabic-Persian dictionary named Miftâh-ı Edeb. Ravzatu’l-Evzân consists of two parts. The first part, where the introduction (mukaddime) takes place, is written in couplets and the second part, where the prosodies are explained, is written in verses. In the first part, the poet tells the name of his work and who he has written it for. According to the information given here, the book was dedicated to Mustafa Bey, the son of Karamanid Mehmed Bey II. Then the poet gives information about the fundamental elements of aruz prosodies. Twenty four prosodies are explained in the second part. The work does not have an epilogue. We found two manuscript copies of the book and by comparing them, we produced a translated and critical text. We also translated it into today’s Turkish. Furthermore, we compared the aruz prosody explained in the work with other copyrighted works on the same subject in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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