Abstract
The Terms of Literary Criticism in Rıza Tezkirah
The works which exemplify the biographies and the works of famous figures, especially the poets are called tezkirah in classical Islamic literature. It is possible to get much information about the literary style of the poets from the biographies (tezkirah). In line with this, the present study aims at analyzing the expressions employed for the depiction of the poets’ literary characteristics in Rıza tezkirah. The expressions used are listed in thirty articles and the necessary explanations are given. Rıza gives short information about 269 poets. Although some brief information is given about the poets, the literary analyses are made considering each poet possesses his original literary style. Like in the other tezkirah, he wrote long biographies about the poets that are important for him. Especially, he gave attention to chant the poets' date of death and places of death. In the first episode of tezkirah that is named ''Zikr-i Shura-yi Salatin-i Maziyya'' he gave place to ten poet monarch. In his tezkirah, Rıza gave examples from the poet's poems after he had expressed the poet's important features (profession, nickname, modest manner, personal qualities, literary characteristics, etc.).
Keywords
Rıza Tezkirah, poet, poem, tezkirah, evaluation, biography.
