A LITERARY GENRE UNKNOWN SUFFICIENTLY IN THE CLASSICAL LITERATURE: RUZNAME AND AN EXAMPLE OF IT BY AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR

Abstract

Classical Turkish literature is a kind of literature which based on poetry. Almost everything that is meant to be told in this literary traditon has been expressed in verse. For this reason, many different genres which include different subjects were written up in poetic way. In this study, an example of the type of ruz-name, which is rarely encountered and less known in the classical literture tardition, is discusssed. The word ruz-name, which means daily writing in Persian, has been used in Turkish historyand culture to cover more than one different genre in different fields. One of them is a literary genre that is about to days of the month or week, in which mentions what is genarally good to do and what is bad to do in these time periods.In this ruz-name, which were analysed, seven days of the week were discussed. In ruz-name daytimes were divided into seven parts; dawn, mid-morning, decadence of day, midday, interval between two prayers, mid-afternoon and sunset. Nighttime also divided into seven parts; occident, evening, ishareyn, midnight, suluseyn, sulusurl-ahir and aurora. By telling which celestial body is dominant on which day of the week at these time periods, the auspicious and omnious deeds at that time are explained.