Abstract
EVALUATIONS ON A NEW İHTİLÂC-NÂME TEXT
Being sceptical about the future, curiosity and the aim of learning the unknown have been seriously problematic for the human race since the creation. As a result of overcoming this problem and having desire to find out the unknown pertaining to the future and to shape their life in this direction, people had taken steps in order to find out the unknown through object, food and drink or twitching body parts for centuries. The empery created by sciences of unknown in the daily life of societies was transferred to the literary texts and as a consequence of this, there were several texts put down on paper in prosaic or poetic form whose writers were either known or unknown. One of the most known examples of this situation is a kind of fortune-telling that has settled in our culture by going under the names of seğir-nâme or ihtilâc-nâme and that has been described as interpretation of the future through looking at the twitching of the body parts. Our study has transliterated the text titled as İhtilâc-nâme that is located in Digital Vatican Library with the code of Borg.turc.79 and contains information regarding twitches, and has been put down on paper for the purpose of emphasizing of the importance this text within its period of time. In 137 works in total mentioning about the twitch, the estimated results related to twitching body parts and future are presented as tabular before the transliteration of the text.
Keywords
seğir-nâme, ihtilâc-nâme, body parts, future, curiosity