Haẕa Kitābu İskender-Nāme

Abstract

This thesis contains the first 90 pages of the Arabic manuscript “Haẕa Kitābu İskender-nāme”. The Manuscript was found in the Vatican Library in the Turkish Manuscripts section No.145 and the author unknown. Although the date of writing the work is not determined, the language of the work is considered in the last period of Old Anatolian Turkish language, and, therefore, it was found that the work was transcribed at the end of the XV century and the beginning of XVI century. This thesis consists of parts such as Introduction, Linguistic Analysis, Transcribed Text and Analytical Directory. In the Introductory part ‘İskendernameler’ is discussed. In the first part the theme of particularly inner and outer features of the work took place. In the second part writing style of the manuscript, sound and form characteristics, historical periods of Turkish is compared to the modern Turkish on the basis of examples. The third part of the thesis includes the alphabet of text transcription and its transfer into Turkish. Fourth part contains analytical directories of the words and proper nouns used in the manuscript. Used references indicated in the last part of the thesis.