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Ahmed Bican Yazıcıoğlu (? - ca. 1466) was an Ottoman author most noted for the cosmography titled ''Dürr-i Meknûn'', the authorship of which is usually attributed to him. ==Biography== Little is known of Yazıcıoğlu's life. His earliest biography was written by Mustafa Âlî. Yazıcıoğlu came from a literary family. His father Salih Yazıcı, who moved to Gelibolu (Gallipoli) before Ahmed was born, and Ahmed's older brother Mehmed Yazıcıoğlu were writers before him and are both still well known. Ahmed Bican Yazıcıoğlu and his brother were pupils of Hacı Bayram-ı Veli who founded the Bayramiyye order. They considered it their dervish duty to spread knowledge among the common people. To accomplish this, they wrote in the language of their people, which was Turkish. Ahmed Bican (Yazıcıoğlu just means ''the scribe'') translated and compiled literature using original works from the then dominant scholarly language of Arabic. This religious act of translation has preserved important works for later generations and has caused him to become considered one of the most important figures of Ottoman culture. Besides translations, he also wrote some original works of his own. The famous legend about the founding of Istanbul can be traced back to his ''Dürr-i Meknûn''. Yazıcıoğlu was highly productive as a writer and transcribed a number of popular religious and encyclopaedic works. His best known books today are the religious work ''Envârü’l- ‘âşıkîn'' and the ''Dürr-i Meknûn''. He was probably able to accomplish these works by his religious lifestyle. His nickname 'Bican' is a term that means ''the lifeless'', which refers to his ascetic dervish lifestyle. He was an advocate of religious fasting and foregoing sleep. The ''Dürr-i Meknûn'' approaches the world from the Creation according to cosmographic tradition. Details about the heavenly bodies are followed by tales of ancient peoples, prophecies and divine punishments, discourses on stones, images, medicinal plants, mythical creatures, faraway countries, seas and islands with their bizarre inhabitants such as the cynocephali. The author concludes with a chapter about the terrors that await us at the end of the world, including the islamic Antichrist: the Dajjal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ahmed Bican Yazıcıoğlu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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