Arap Edebiyatında Eğitici Bir Edebî Tür Olarak Makâme ve İbnü'l Verdî'den Salgın Dönemlerine Ait Bir Örnek [Maqāma as an Educational Literary Genre in Arabic Literature and an Example of Pandemic from the Time of Ibn al-Wardī]

Al-maqāmāt, which appeared in Arabic literature as a literary
genre in the fourth century, were having the characteristics of preach
and speech. In the course of time, however, they have started to appear
as educational, instructive and entertaining texts. Ibn al-Wardī’s maqāma,
al-Nabā ‘An al-Wabā, which is in the point of this article, appears to be have
an educational and instructive characteristic. One of the most important aspect of the work, beside its literary aspect is that it was written in a
time when the world facing one of the heaviest waves of pandemic, and
that the work contains some important historical and cultural data about
Islamic geography and society of this time, which were also under the
threat of the pandemic. Ibn al-Wardī’s maqāma is translated into Turkish
for the first time in this article and being subject to a content analysis.
We will have the opportunity to see how the pandemic diseases left deep
traces both in individuals’ psychology and in their society through the
eyes of a Muslim scholar who lived in the fourteenth century and was
died of the pandemic.