Ahmed Pasha's Divan: Critical text-contextual index and functional dictionary

Ahmed Pasha is one of the peak poets of the 15th century divan poetry. Although he is introduced as a Bursa native in the sources, the artist who was born in Edirne passed away in Bursa, where he spent most of his life. After Ahmed Pasha completed his education and worked as a judge in Edirne and Bursa, he attracted attention with his abilities in a short time, and was appointed as a judge, and then became the companion and vizier of Fatih Sultan Mehmed. His rapid ascent caused jealousy, and he was dismissed from his post as a result of slander. After being the trustee of the Sultan Murad and Emir Sultan foundations in Bursa, he was appointed to the managerial position in Ankara, Sarayönü and eventually Bursa. He continued his duty as a manager in Bursa until the end of his life. Ahmed Pasha died in 902 (1497). The only work that Ahmed Pasha collected his poems is his Dîvân. In Dîvân, masnavi, eulogy, qasida-i kebire, composition-i bend, terci-i bend, ghazal, history, kıt'a, müfred and matla; There are Arabic and Persian verses. Ahmed Pasha had an important influence on the aesthetic development of Ottoman field divan poetry. In our study, it is aimed to prepare the critical text and the contextual index and functional dictionary of Ahmed Pasha's Divan. Forty-one copies of the Dîvân were identified and all of them were reached, the copies were evaluated according to the genealogical tree method, and the lineage relationship between them was revealed to a large extent. In addition, the poems recorded in the name of Ahmed Pasha in the journals were examined and the possible poems that did not enter the Divan were tried to be determined. The poems in the copies with single or limited witnesses and the poems in the magazines are not included in the critical text. Divans, nazire magazines, tezkires were examined in order to determine the poems that were included in the copies. In order to better reveal the semantic world of Ahmed Pasha's Divan, a contextual index and functional dictionary have been prepared by making use of the TEBDİZ project.