Tekur/Takawwur: A Case of Word Game in Hašt Bihišt VI

Abstract

Idrīs Bidlīsī (1457-1520), was one of the major contributors to Ottoman history in the sixteenth-century. He was probably not an attractive figure. His extensive knowledge as a historian and adīb and presumably his Kurdish origin made him unpopular among many of his Ottoman court contemporaries. There is much that remains obscure due to insufficient textual evidence on his works and especially his unpublished Hašt Bihišt VI but occasionally one gets a glimse of Bidlīsī’s work and style.