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Manzume 77 — Gurûrı mansıbuñ yoldan çıkardı

Amasya05 Editorial Board • Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk • 01 October 2026 • Updated: 14 October 2026 • 3 min reading

Emir Süleyman, sunk in drinking parties and overthrown by Musa, is rebuked in three couplets; earlier Mehmed Çelebi had sent him envoys from Amasya.

Contents 4

1Original Ottoman Turkish Text
2In English
3Literary and Historical Commentary
4Bibliography

Original Ottoman Turkish Text

Gurûrı mansıbuñ yoldan çıkardı
Sevinüp alduguñ elden çıkardı

Ne itdüñ halka kim yüzin çevürdi
Sevenler cümle göñülden çıkardı

Şarâb u çeng ü çagana vü hem saz
Musâhibüñ olar başdan çıkardı

In English

1. The pride of office led you astray; what you took with joy you let slip from your hand.

2. What did you do to the people that they turned their faces away; even those who loved you put you out of their hearts.

3. Wine, harp, cymbal and saz: these were your companions, and they led you astray.

Literary and Historical Commentary

An Envoy from Amasya

The paths Bayezid's sons took after his death are the subject of the sixty-seventh chapter. Emir Süleyman takes the throne in Rumelia. The author records: "When Sultan Mehmed in Amasya heard that Emir Süleyman had ascended the throne, he sent an envoy." Mehmed's message is mild: "Long live my Emir; if our father is gone, my Emir is to us in a father's place." He sends two horses as gifts; Emir Süleyman in turn sends him some page boys and slave girls. This scene is an early record showing Çelebi Mehmed conducting diplomacy like a sovereign from Amasya during the Interregnum. Emir Süleyman, for his part, asks the lord of Karaman not to release Musa; Musa flees to İsfendiyar. Emir Süleyman camps by a stream near Göynük and spends the winter there; the place takes the name "Beg Kavağı", the Lord's Poplar, from his drinking parties held without pause at the foot of a poplar. Musa crosses from Sinop to Wallachia and from there to Rumelia; the lords of Rumelia go over to him. Emir Süleyman, lying "hung over", is roused with difficulty, flees and is killed in a village; Musa burns the village.

The Pride of Office

Beginning "Gurûrı mansıbuñ", the couplets are addressed to Emir Süleyman: the pride of office has led him astray, and he has let slip what he took with joy. The people turned away, and even those who loved him put him out of their hearts. The third couplet names the cause outright: wine, harp, cymbal and saz became his companions and led him astray. This criticism should be read together with the chapter that ties Bayezid's drinking parties to Ali Paşa; the prose says that Emir Süleyman too gave himself to revels in İznik "with the wine of Ali Paşa's favour". The refrain "çıkardı" occurs four times in the six lines of the three couplets, and each time it tells of a loss: from the road, from the hand, from the heart, from the head.