Between Two Worlds Kafadar.pdf

Greek Population of Istanbul and the Byzantine Buildings of the City," DOP
23(1970):231-49.
115. The unmitigated joy of the frontier warriors in the early Ottoman era, not
very different from a similar ethos reflected in the Viking sagas, is
brilliantly captured by Yahya Kemal Beyatli, the classic[zing Turkish poet from
the mm of this century: "Bin atli akinlarda çocuklar gibi sendik * / Bin atli o
gün dev gibi bir orduyu yendik" (We were happy like children in those raids with
one thousand horsemen / We defeated a giant army that day with one thousand
horsemen). This should not be taken to imply that there was an indiscriminate
appreciation of warfare and that there were no anti-war sentiments. But the
raiders apparently felt that as long as fighting was bound to occur, one might
as well have one's heart in it. On anti-war poetry in Anatolian Turkish, see
Ilhan * Basgoz * , Folklor ¡ azilari (Istanbul, 1986), 81.
116. Hereafter, the Yahsi * Fakih * menakib * will be abbreviated YF.
117. Wittek, "The Taking of the Aydos Castle."
118. Ibid. It may of course be questioned whether Apz indeed reflected the
mentality of "the earliest Ottoman times" here, but at least it is clear that he
was quite close to the spirit of other frontier lore, such as that analyzed in
the earlier part of this chapter.
119. In this unique episode in Apz's chronicle, which in all likelihood comes
from YF, it is suggested to Osman that he obtain permission from the Seljuk
sultan, but Osman finds the Osmanlis' mission of gaza a sufficient cause to
sanction the reading of the hutbe * in his own name. Here we dearly have the use
of the gaza as a legitimizing principle in opposition to claims (of the Timurids
and their protégés in Asia Minor?) that the Ottomans were upstarts who needed
the suzerainty of a legitimate central power.
120. Ménage, "On the Recensions of Uruj's 'History of the Ottomans;" BSOAS
30(1967): 314-22; Elizabeth Zachariadou, "The Menaqib of Yahshi Fakih,"
unpublished; Jacques Lefort, "Tableau de la Bithynie au XIIIe siècles," OE,
101-17; Clive Foss, "The Homeland of the Ottomans," unpublished.
121. Yerasimos, La fondation de Constantinople et de Sainte-Sophie.
122. Nesri * , ed. Taeschner, 25; ed. Unat and Köymen, 78-79.
123. Nesri * , ed. Taeschner, 29; ed. Unat and Köymen, 92-95.
124. In one of Nesri's * known sources, the Oxford Anonymous (hereafter
abbreviated OA), there is a passage on Osman's election, "evidently taken from
Yaziji-oghlu" (V. L. Ménage, Neshri's * History of the Ottomans [London, 1964],
13). While relating some interesting and seemingly authentic tribal traditions
concerning the electoral process, Yazicizade * does not mention Dündar or any
other rivals. The whole section on Osman after his election, where his rivalries
with family members may have been recorded, is missing in the extant manuscript.
If there is a family fight in the missing part of this source, it is unlikely to
have been with Dündar since the OA does not mention any brothers of Ertogril.
This source is now published, but its editors (who have not used Ménage's work)
have maintained the older mistaken identification with Ruhi-i * Edrenevi * :
"Rûhî Tarîhi," ed. H. E. Cengiz and Y. Yücel, Belgeler 14-18 (1989-92):359-472.
Thus the editors have also "completed" the text by filling in the missing
section on Osman from a copy of the chronicle of Ruhi * .
125. Ibn * Kemal * , Tevarih-i * Al-i * `Osman * , vol. 1, ed. S * . Turan
(Ankara, 1970), 65-66, 129-30.
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