A new Document about the Execution of Abdulvehhab Ilhami Cover Image

Pogubljenje Abdulvehaba Ilhamije u svjetlu novih izvora
A new Document about the Execution of Abdulvehhab Ilhami

Author(s): Ömer Aksoy
Subject(s): Bosnian Literature, 18th Century, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Fakultet humanističkih nauka, Univerzitet »Džemal Bijedić« u Mostaru
Keywords: Abdulvehhab Ilhami;Bosnia;Ottoman Empire;

Summary/Abstract: Abdulvehab İlhami, who lived between 1773-1821, is one of the greatest representatives of Alhamiyado literature. In addition to the poems he wrote in Bosnian, he is regarded as one of the important intellectuals of the period and the works he received in Turkish and Arabic. At the same time, İlhami, known for his mystical identity, is considered one of the prominent mysticos in public. The period when İlhami lived was a time when the Ottoman State and Bosnia Herzegovina faced many problems in political, military and economic terms. İlhami expressed his deficiencies in the poetry with the irritating and uncomfortable manner of the deficiencies that occurred during his period. In addition to his poetry and mystical personality, he was engraved into the cultural memory of the Bosnian people who were executed by Bosnian governor Celal Pasha. The remaining parts of the dark about the cause of the execution were filled in by the Bosniaks in their own imitations, and they came with a number of menus describing the execution of Ilhami. In fact, the famous satyr that he wrote for Celal Pasha was shown as the reason for this execution. The first and only historical document giving information related to the execution of Ilhami, the governor of Bosnia Celal Pasha, who was sent to Istanbul in 1821, and the reason for the incarceration of part of the execution of some of the soldiers who acted with him, related to the reasons for the killing of Ilhami.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 29-45
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bosnian